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[–] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There's a bunch of Chinese posts asking if the stuff about school shootings, fires, homelessness are exaggerated propaganda only to be told otherwise. It's both hilarious and sad.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I'm reminded of that ex Soviet joke about how they always knew the government was lying about their own countries but were shocked to learn it was telling the truth about america

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

School shootings is something uniquely american. Even México doesn't have them and we have a decent amount of narcojuniors (rich sons of drug dealers) that would have plenty access to guns, the only time i remember a school shooting happening it was in a private school in Monterrey like 7 years ago, which is pretty much the most americanized part of México.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 0 points 1 month ago

Wow that's crazy

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People of the US and China are both unsure of what to believe about the other, because both are so propagandized lol

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There is definitely more direct censorship of domestic events in China than in the US. For instance, in the US it is widely publicised that the government separates children from adults at the border. Ask Chinese about the Uyghur work camps and they won’t know.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You don’t know what Chinese people do or don’t know. You only know what Western governments and Western corporate media tell you Chinese people do or don’t know.

There’s nothing secret about what happened in Xinjiang. People are well aware of the terrorist attacks and of how the local and federal governments’ responded to them.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Thank goodness for the modlog! You are right on. Just because American propaganda is bad doesn't mean Chinese isn't bad too or that we have to defend it. Everyone should be held accountable.

[–] yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Because there are no "work camps" in China

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

You just made that up. You genuinely have no idea what the Chinese perception of the uyghur imprisonment is. In fact you've gone out of your way to call their prison system a "work camp". I'm not even saying that it's not a work camp. What I am saying is you wouldn't call American prisons a work camp despite also being used for mass slave labor.