Say the line, Parenti.
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In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
– Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds
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most honest china bad reporter
Unironically, usually they never correct their false statements.
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It drives me up the wall that cracker pieces of shit like that sit on their ass and whine about imaginary oppression in Shanghai. She’s probably pissed that she can’t scream at brown people about how much better the West is, and thinks her words are worth their weight in gold. If she thinks its so miserable, let me take her residency in Shanghai.
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Like why in the world would you want to live in Shanghai if it’s so terrible there?
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Western propaganda is just really lazy, nowadays. No doubt that it’s a symptom of neoliberalism-induced brain rot.
They don’t have to try hard. Their audience is xenophobic to begin with. It’s like dunking on a 5ft basketball hoop.
That’s the worst part for me. This stuff is so damn easy to disprove, yet people eat it up. It’s both a lack of ability to think critically and an unwillingness to. It sucks. I just don’t know how people live. I’ve seen how my liberal friends live, they’ll work then go home and watch tv. They just consume, consume, consume, and they’re utterly miserable despite filling their homes with plastic junk.
And yet, they are totally hostile to the idea that this isn’t a healthy way to live, because this is the “default” in our society. So they have to continue to be miserable, moving from distraction to distraction and keeping their brain switched off as long as possible. Yet the idea that this doesn’t have to be the only way fills them with anger and frustration, probably because they don’t want to feel like they’ve “wasted their life” so instead they will guarantee they waste their life by being yet another mindless consumer liberal.
Oh she’s DUMB dumb
Eva please think critically challenge. (impossible because western propaganda)
Average level of knowledge of average China-watcher in mainstream media
You see this a lot in youtube comment sections, liberals are endlessly ignorant
That would never happen anyway. The Chinese love the guy, and any gripes they have are unrelated to Xinjiang
context? were they singing the internationale 😂?
think might be referring to this, but not totally sure :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWjTb9CtkxM
This is one of the rare occasion the one propagandist didn’t double down after realizing their bs.
lol that is rare now that you mention it