There’s protests happening in China and people will show me an article from AP, Reuters or CNN and ask “What the fuck is happening in China??”
I understand the question is “what is actually happening that the media is hiding?”. But:
What’s happening is nothing worth mentioning. Stuff happens all the time.
The media emphasizes those small acts and gives them a voice, and we internalise this voice even if we don’t want to. They make mountains out of a molehill and we see that mountain too, even when we realise it can’t be a mountain.
This goes for things not relating to protests or China too. If it comes from western media, distrust it already. Assume bad faith. Distance yourself from it as much as possible.
Inb4 ‘Tiananmen square 1 bajillion protest dead’ levels of Bullshit
I’ve already seen comments like “I haven’t seen anything like this since 1989!”
In one statement they invoke Tiananmen and also pretend no comparable protests or riots happened in the US and Europe in the past 30 years 🙄
In some ways they’re right, although they don’t realize it. It seems that these protests are once again instigated and organized by western provocateurs, just like the violent events of 1989.