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Exactly this. I felt extremely safe in Shenzen. More safe than I've ever been in any American city. Maximum propaganda about China in the west has done people
by aurareturn 3y ago
Exactly this. I felt extremely safe in Shenzen. More safe than I've ever been in any American city.
Maximum propaganda about China in the west has done people in. But people in the west still swears that they actually have press freedom. Yet, no mainstream press will ever write anything remotely positive about China or simply daily life in China.
- phist_mcgee 3y agoWho says that feeling safe and authoritarian police states are mutually exclusive? In fact they go hand in hand, the state offers security and protection and the citizen offers up political agency and free-speech.
- sharlos201068 3y agoOf course you felt safe, you weren't publically opposing the regime.
- arp242 3y agoAnd had a US passport, which gives some protection, which also means they can just leave. It takes staggering levels of privilege to claim visiting China as a US national is the same as living there as a Chinese national. People don't understand how these authoritarian regimes work because it's so far outside of their experience. During the Nazi rule and occupation most people just continued their lives as before, especially during the first few years. What else could you do, right? And mostly, it was kind of okay. But it wasn't "safe" by any means, even for non-Jews. But people also weren't shaking with fear 24/7.
- snowpid 3y agoI know one German mainstream news paper which did it. How many news papers from the West do you read? H
- throwaway2990 3y agolol plenty of mainstream media write positivity about China. But equally they write about how terrible the CCP is because, it’s the truth.
- aurareturn 3y agoSource? Also, define “equally” in your context.
- throwaway2990 3y agoSource? Mainstream media. There’s no conspiracy saying “only post negative stuff”
- aurareturn 3y agoSo no source at all.
- pvaldes 3y ago> no mainstream press will ever write anything remotely positive daily life in China. The number of videos that westerners are receiving with positive messages about daily life in China, (or S. Korea, or Japan) on tablets, laptops or TV channels has never been so high in fact.