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could be, but it's way easier to just paint chinese people as savages that drowned their own infant daughters.
by beachstartup 10y ago
could be, but it's way easier to just paint chinese people as savages that drowned their own infant daughters.
- chillingeffect 10y agoExactly. The "Chinese as savages" fits a narrative that a lot of people want to hear so it resonates as an unquestioned assumption. It also helps bolster the war on women narrative. Here's one think tank that propagates the sex-selective abortion in China: [1] Here's a mainstream article which gives a weak strawman argument then concludes there must be widespread sex-selective abortion in China: [ 2 ] And this article goes even farther out on the line, saying the Chinese women were "forced" to abort their daughters, not using evidence to verify the theory, but using a piece of artwork by a French artist to propagate the idea visually: [3] All of these stories must be critically considered in light of the new evidence by the Kennedy-Yaojiang paper. (and obviously we must also critically consider Kenney-Yaojiang). [1] https://lozierinstitute.org/sex-selection-abortion-the-real-war-on-women/ https://lozierinstitute.org/sex-selection-abortion-the-real-... [2] http://www.economist.com/node/15636231 http://www.economist.com/node/15636231 [3] http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/opinion/zhang-terracotta-daughters http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/opinion/zhang-terracotta-daugh...