On stuff outside of lemmygrad, we are receiving a lot of hate, especially by those who just moved from Reddit. Guess they lost their hidden privilege at Reddit as their rhetoric used to be almost universal over there, while genzedong and our other subs get censored and banned. And now, on lemmy, their stuff isn’t universal, as we are more prevalent here. Seems like they really want that hidden privilege back
Nobody was arguing that, two things can both do bad.
There is a world war going on and I have picked the side that fights against the usa.
thats fine honey
Words that can only be spoken by someone who’s never tried to get together with others to change things for the better. You don’t get to take an entire society and immediately make it equitable and free it of centuries of hangups. You do the revolution with the people in your country, warts and all, and struggle to make them better at the same time. You do not have the luxury of only organizing people that already 100% agree with you, nor will you be “in charge”. And, let’s be honest: any of us in charge would bring our own hangups, because all of us look back on ourselves 5-10 years ago and say, “wow that person believed some problematic things”.
For example, the October Revolution and Russuan Civil War were fought by, believe it or not, Russians born (mostly) in the 1800s in a semi-feudal country without universal education and a large peasantry. The communists were incredibly progressive in comparison to the rest of thr country. But because they retained some of the harmful biases of their culture at the time, you write off the whole project and carry around little lists in your head about how actually they were also just “bad”.
Only that it is almost never the case. And never when people start giving your talking point.
What is my talking point?
“Two things can be bad” - never the case it situations when people start saying it. It ignores scale and often takes hearsay as fact.
I specifically said “do bad”
Where does China do bad then? On the scale of the US? The supposed Uyghur “genocide” which lacks any strong evidence, even after years? Supposed debt traps, that even westen capitalist outlets like Bloomberg denied the existence of? Military wise? The PRC waged its last war almost 50 years ago (aside the ongoing civil war ofc), that’s twice as long as the US had years not in a war in its entire history.
You take the position that China does no bad?
Read again: “Bad” as categorization alone is worthless. Because it is far to inprecise. If one car driver is 10 km/h over the speed limit on a country road and another drives over and kills a child, then both are “bad”. But to treat both incidents as equal would be plain demented. Yet you do just that regarding China and the USA…
Scale is the difference.
Also what “bad” stuff are you even talking about? Because if you are talking about invented events, then they are also not “bad” of course, because they did not happen in the first place!
The point there is not that the USA is bad but that it is order of magnitudes worse, which means that opposing its enemies must be considered through the lens of “Does this help the US?”
To say nothing of the incredible amount of State Department propaganda that many western so-called leftists readily accept at the same time as “disavowing” the US as “also bad”. If you believe the same things about the US’s enemies that the US is actively campaigning to make you believe, that is a red flag.
I agree