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It's worth calling out two sad trends in the west as well. One is bad-faith defense of the plagiarism. It's really just the logic fallacy of attacking one's mot
by hintymad 3y ago
It's worth calling out two sad trends in the west as well. One is bad-faith defense of the plagiarism. It's really just the logic fallacy of attacking one's motives, and I can't believe so many western people bought into such fallacy. Chinese used to say “杀人诛心”,which means it's better to attack one's motives than killing this person, and it is exactly how people persecuted their political components for thousands of years. I can't believe that the west, who brought forth the modern political systems, are going backwards, big time.
Another trend is dividing people into oppressed and oppressors, while automatically giving the oppressed the moral high ground and all the legitimacies. I mean, how is it different from what Chinese and the Soviet Union did back in 1960s? For starters, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre. Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot. Do western people really think they can do better if this kind of false dichotomy prevails?
- ipnon 3y agoThere is nothing more dangerous than certainty of belief.
- arrowsmith 3y agoAre you sure?
- corimaith 3y agoWell I would imagine many of those who acting this way have always had sympathies for the underlying ideologies of China and the USSR. Liberals are a small minority after all.
- hintymad 3y agoI wish so but I'm not so sure about that. Harvard CAPS had a poll that showed more than half of the young people support Hamas. The Squad have been steadily gaining popularity, so much so that a recent article in Spectator asked who would be able to stop the Squad after the Biden administration is gone while Pelosi already stepped down. And in multiple cities in the US, the mob destroyed statues, yet left Lenin's intact.
- enterprise_cog 3y agoWhy would people who were protesting racism in the US care about tearing down a statue of Lenin? Yknow, rather than the ones of people who advanced or tried to protect slavery here.