Hey now Johnny, I was responding to the assertion that an abundance of middle-class wealth and consumerism allowed for a corrupt, dictatorial government to continue well documented human rights violations as if that were true. There’s no way I accept that 50 flavours of cola and fancy phones makes Chinese citizens complicit in the governments crimes.
When you have a reported conviction rate of 99.9 percent, speaking out is against the law, and the government censored media, I can understand why most citizens would just let it be.
Now, if it were the case that the very post I was responding to were true, where millions of people were apathetic towards their nations human rights violations because they could shop to their hearts content somehow, I certainly feel like that would be the kind of thing that couldn’t be excused. Not sure how that could be considered hateful or harming?
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No, no…I’m not sloppy, or lazy. This is a sign of the boredom.
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