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.
I have a lot of Chinese friends who support the protesters. As an American, it’s just not worth investing any signicant attention on my part except trying to piece out the truth from the propaganda. Chinese people have every right to protest their government. It’s their government. That does not fucking mean Westerners should get involved or feel like their opinion is actually worth anything. Because it’s not. It’s worth less than dirt.
It’s maddening that in the US, cops can torture people to death on camera in broad daylight and all liberals can scream is “VOTE!!!” But if protests happen in another country that they’ve been propagandized to hate, they automatically turn into rabid imperialists that support regime change.