At least the picture was taken IN CHINA this time. Not like when they “found” a letter from a Uyghur being held captive hidden in a a Nike shoe, and the shoes were made in Vietnam. Or like when they said they had a picture of Uyghur force labour and it was a picture of a factory in Brazil, complete with a Portuguese sign in the corner. And let’s not forget the infamous CIA operative tied to Guantanamo Bay who did an AMA on Reddit posing as a Uyghur defector, and of course Reddit lapped it up!

    • loathesome dongeaterMA
      17·
      2 years ago

      This comment was removed by the mods BTW:

      Hello. How do you reconcile your prior career working with numerous human rights abusers in the US government, namely the Dept of Defence and the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp with posting this AMA?

    • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69
      14·
      2 years ago

      Wow in 2 years they went from doubting dubious sources to eating up every piece of propaganda lol

      • Weilai Hope
        16·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, if this CIA agent made the same post today it would be very different. I guess reddit really did purge all the sense out of it.

      • CriticalResist8A
        15·
        2 years ago

        They were still eating it up, her AMA was published after the allegations in Xinjiang came out. We were surprised at the time too that reddit didn’t buy into it.

        Their brains are like play doh, they will take whatever shape you impress on them. Don’t overestimate their capabilities lol

        • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
          10·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, the majority of people went along for quite a while.

          Mind you, it’s even worse now. We know from tools like removeddit that /r/worldnews now has a habit of removing any comments calling out the Western political narrative. Personal conspiracy theory: I suspect because they got some financial “incentives” from Reddit corporate, hell, maybe even some US three-letter agency. Is it that hard to imagine when we have documented cases of it happening in the past?

  • T34 [they/them]
    13·
    2 years ago

    “That’s like, what, 150 cans of sauce brutally murdered by China? Quick, add 150 new casualties to the Black Book of Communism!”

  • gun@lemmy.ml
    111·
    2 years ago

    This is the kind of thing that blackpills me like nothing else. I can understand when someone disagrees with me just because they have a different experience with the facts of an issue. I can understand why someone would be skeptical that communism would work, it’s not dishonest to think that, it’s an opinion. But shit like this, someone had to deliberately and knowingly lie to make this.

    I always assume the best in people no matter what. I even assume the elites in society legitimately hold their beliefs that are informed by their class position. But this makes me wonder whether there are some that know the truth, but choose to lie out of self interest. That they know exactly what they are doing.