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Those topics are not banned in China, actually. It’s Westerners who are themselves propagandized into believing that they are.
People who live in Five-eyes states don’t understand how propaganda works in their own countries, despite it not being a secret. Here are some uncontroversial Wikipedia entries on it; standard stuff that’s taught in schools of marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism.
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Westerners are propagandized to the gills about Xinjiang/the Uyghurs and the Tiananmen riots and Tibet/the Dalai Lama and Falun Gong/Dafa, for example. All of those were or still are CIA/NED/other US three-letter-acronym projects, BTW. The Dalai Lama was on the CIA payroll (perhaps he still is); the US funded and organized terrorist cells in Xinjiang; the NED funded and helped organize the Tiananmen “revolutionaries” and Falun Dafa.
All it does when someone posts that garbage is show their ignorance. Like that copypasta is some magic spell. Just embarrassing.
This is the problem with these conversations, you don't honestly engage at all and instead resort to ad hominims, irrelevant tangents or even in this case straight up lying. Copying and pasting from scripts that fail to address the point is not doing you any favours.
It's not a football match. You don't have to pick a side and defend it no matter what. You can and should be equally be critical of immoral actions regardless of where they come from. By playing the whatabout game to 'defend your side' all you do is normalise these things by implying that it's fine because everyone does it.
How people in the imperial core are propagandized is not an irrelevant tangent.
You accept Five Eyes corporate media uncritically because you don’t understand media, which I tried to explain, but you decided that it was an irrelevant tangent.
I don’t have all day; I’ll address two.
Xinjiang/The Uyghurs
The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and once those efforts failed, it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just a few weeks ago.
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The blueprint of regime change operations
Tiananmen riots
It’s not; I’m not; and neither do you.
Edit to add: I’m certainly not picking “our” side. I mean, have you seen our side? The side that’s providing political and material support for an actual genocide as we speak?
So your response to my comment pointing out that you're just attacking me, posting from a script and not engaging with the discussion is to what... Attack me, post some scripts and continue not to engage? If you just want to monologue, maybe make a separate post.
I pointed out the irony in your original reply and you've yet to address it except to make the courageous claim that there is no censorship in China. When I show counter examples it's back to ad hominims. Can you address the specific points of censorship please? I That's what we are talking about. "Addressing" two points as you have done gets you nowhere to defending your original claim that there is no censorship in the China.
Also another obviously dishonest point you added in your edit. Clearly your side has nothing to do with where your born, I don't know where you're from or who you are mate, it's about selective criticism where you only criticise one side and never accept criticisms of another side. I am happy to criticise any 'side'. I'm critical of the country I was born, of the US, the CCP and everyone in between.
I never made the claim that there is no censorship in China. That would be a ridiculous claim to make considering that there is indeed censorship in China. There is censorship in the West as well, though it is of a different character.
Edit to add: Chinese people aren’t afraid to discuss the Tiananmen riots, as smug online Westerners seem to enjoy believing. That’s ridiculous. But Westerners smugly believe it, in fact it seems as if they want it to be true.
I feel like we're playing word games now but maybe I just misinterpreted you. Are these topics censored on the Chinese internet or not? That was the whole point of my original comment.
I never said they were afraid to discuss them. Just that they were banned on the Chinese internet.
Ad hominim ad nauseum. This just makes it seem like there is no substance to what you're saying if you keep resorting to ad hominims.
You’re looking at it.