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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I personally hope to see your account disappear now. Stop shilling for a souless dictatorship that has no respect for its own people. State publicly here that the recent actions by Xi Jingping and Communist Party Leadership against the Uygher people, the people of Hong Kong, and eminently it seems on the people of Taiwan are absolutely unacceptable. State that in no uncertain terms or #### off and be labelled a shill forever.
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I don’t know why you seem to think I should be accountable to you in any way. I’m not. Not in the least. I have expressed my views clearly on genocide here and I’ve expressed my views clearly about Hong Kong in other threads. I have been personally affected by these things and people close to me who I care about have been personally affected by these things. Your validation of my experiences and my views of China as a whole are completely unneeded and totally unimportant to me.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
#### off and be labelled a shill forever.
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
hitch your wagon to that horse comrade.
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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
It's perfectly clear to anyone who's not a shill
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Say more about the posters writing them than they do about me.
Beyond that, I'll also add that some posts, like the ones suggesting I have a gun to my head in Shanghai to say things in support of the government, or implying that Chinese people all live in fear of their government, I think somewhat encourage a fearful, paranoid view of China. Regardless of innocent or positive intent of these kinds of posts, it’s also the case that fear, paranoia and ignorance can easily fuel xenophobia and posts like that should at least be challenged or clarified to reach a more accurate understanding of the country people are talking about. Life in China is not life in North Korea.
The truth is that the large majority of people in China trust and support their government. The Communist Party, for all it’s problems, has played a huge part in lifting over 800 million people out of poverty, providing them with access to quality education and healthcare, and ensuring they have ample food to eat. In the 40 years since Deng Xiaoping began the process of transforming China's economic system, the country has gone from being an economically and technologically impoverished nation to being right on the verge of leading the world in both categories. Some minorities would certainly describe being oppressed, but no shortage of Chinese are living flourishing lives and lives that are far better than they were in the past. The trend in the last decade has also shown that more and more Chinese nationals who go abroad for education in places like Canada, Australia, the US and the UK are choosing to return to the Mainland to make their lives. Those people choosing to return wouldn’t be doing that if they were so fearful of the Communist Party and yearning to be free of the Party’s oppression. They’re returning because they feel it offers them a better quality of life. Loads of Canadians and Americans in China are also living happy and flourishing lives. People who have spent substantial time in China would know that.
None of that is an excuse for needless brutalities or human rights abuses, and there are plenty of other valid things that China could be criticized for, but these good sides are also realities of the complex picture that is the country as a whole. There's no need to deny them.