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It’s appeasement in a new form. We are all acting like corporate Neville Chamberlains. A lot of bad behavior is truly subjective, but the stuff China is doing i
by runawaybottle 6y ago
It’s appeasement in a new form. We are all acting like corporate Neville Chamberlains. A lot of bad behavior is truly subjective, but the stuff China is doing is not. Any arguments against that suggestion usually fall under the realm of moral relativism, e.g ‘But what about what all the shit America does?’. We’ll discuss America in America’s in own thread, there’s plenty there to rip apart.
Quite frankly, the Chinese people demonstrably have a weak value system when it comes to these issues, exemplified by inaction (what are these people willing protest? Is it a matter of willingness or is it entirely possible they see nothing wrong with the camps or the subjugation of Hong Kong?).
The criticism certainly won’t come from within China, so it must come from outside.
- tekkk 6y agoYour comment reminded me of a video, where a man who had lived in China for many years explained that in China the default behavior is to not to care or get involved. So that's why something as audacious as human trafficking can happen in a broad daylight, and rarely a bystander gets involved. It doesn't mean of course that everyone in China is like this, but I guess there's a seed of truth in that.
- runawaybottle 6y agoChina being the largest case study of the Bystander effect sounds quite plausible. I would also love to get some smart polling data from the Chinese public, and by that I mean not what America did in the 2016 election where we couldn’t obfuscate the questions to extract real sentiment. Ask them a question like ‘do you feel people in Hong Kong think they are better than mainlanders?’, and then I think we’ll start to expose some reality.