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    Re: Chinese Propaganda - Wolf Warrior | Renegade Cut Archived Message

    Posted by Sinister Burt on October 5, 2019, 10:08 am, in reply to "Re: Chinese Propaganda - Wolf Warrior | Renegade Cut"

    Well obviously - jeez, i didn;t think i'd have to give so many disclaimers here - of course, as i said repeatedly, i don't think western propaganda is 'better', just better executed - just because i post someting critical of china, doesn't mean i'm saying china are the baddies (aside from all states being the baddies) - the chinese state is nowhere near our level of sophistication of propaganda (our culture is saturated in it), but as shown by that film, they're definitiely trying to copy our methods, and this is a site about media and propaganda - the methods are bad whoever does them (and yes we deal with our own states first, but i do that mostly - it's both/and not either/or).

    China is a powerful (state) capitalist state, possibly about to become the biggest economy - they don;t get a free pass from me because of their recent political origin - eg i'm not cool with muslims or tibetans in reeducation camps, just the same as i don't like detention centres and 'deradicalisation' here; i'm not cool with horrible working conditions in factories, whether used to make widgets for chinese people or for us. I obviously wouldn't bring this up if i was in a forum where it could be used to bolster western superiority, but i did think we could handle the nuance here - maybe i was wrong. (did you actually watch the video? it starts with a bit saying both western and chinese propaganda incorrectly describe china as a communist/socialist state for their own purposes - i should have just posted some of the obvious ones criticsing american culture - here's a random one...



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