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Decades of red-baiting propaganda warps people's ideas of what these countries are actually like.
by minikites 7y ago
Decades of red-baiting propaganda warps people's ideas of what these countries are actually like.
- allovernow 7y agoThere are millions of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who will tell you exactly what it is like to live under an authoritarian socialist regime. Life in other countries can be very different from what you've experienced in the U.S.
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- simonh 7y agoMy wife is Chinese and I know from her and her family exactly what it was like for them. When my father in law talks about the hardships inflicted on their family he tears up. You clearly have absolutely no idea what it's actually like. Equating arbitrary detention, re-education camps and political executions to being boycotted by some TV stations is a shameful farce. Yes in the west things can go badly wrong, innocent people can get chewed up and hurt much more than a trivial example like the Dixie Chicks. Good grief, that's the best you could come up with? But the Chinese system is based on knowingly trashing people's lives systematically on a massive scale.