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We know for a fact most of what is going on, it's not well hidden. The CCP will give guided tours of their concentration camps to try to prove they are not con
by jariel 6y ago
We know for a fact most of what is going on, it's not well hidden.
The CCP will give guided tours of their concentration camps to try to prove they are not concentration camps.
Pulling out prisoners, in jail against their will, who say on camera: "I am here for my own good, I am happy".
It's bizarre and frightening.
- Viliam1234 6y agoThe bizarre thing is that Western intellectuals will no doubt believe it. Just like they believed during Soviet Union that gulags were enlightened humanitarian institutions full of happy people.
- jariel 6y agoWestern academics and proles are upset by it. It's the realpolitik wings i.e. business and politics that are less directly concerned because it hurts them, or, it's hard for them to do anything about. Western Academics loved Stalin, even as millions were dying in the Ukraine because: 1) He was a Communist - and the leader of the glorious revolution. 2) The direct news of 'how bad it was' wasn't clear. We didn't have TV to project images and experiences. And maybe there was a snippet or two in the NYT about it, so it was easy to dismiss, fantasize. 3) We didn't really understand these mass control regimes yet. This was a new phenom. This massive, centralized control for the proletariat, the grand experiment wasn't up yet. Communism wasn't truly a dirt word until after the 1950's and 1960's when it was also associated with the Cold War.