I’ve lived in the UK all my life. I’ve been to the USA once and China nonce.
Anyway, it’s clear my post wasn’t put together well as it seems people think I’m saying China good, when I’m really not. I’m trying to say western media bias is a thing and although China has bad things, we do too and I wanted to open a discussion about this.
Thank you. This is helpful.
I added an edit, but I want to be abundantly clear, however faltered, that my intention here was ton draw attention to western media bias and not to whitewash China in any way. I am aware of the things bad in China like Uyghurs, etc.
It’s clear so far that I failed, but i am open and expect constructive criticism as I want to be better and have a voice.
That’s fair criticism and clearly I am not well versed enough to be attempting to write about this topic. I’ll not do this again and I’ll remove this post soon.
Edit: I also want to highlight that I sourced this material and used a tool to help me write it challenge western media bias and not to whitewash China. I can see on reflection how it might seem that way.
I wouldn’t say I need to, but more I would like to.
If people are voting against their own interests because they have been lied to then don’t we owe it people to try and get them to see how the world works?
If people are hating on immigrants and poor people rather than the class system that is extracting all the wealth from areas then surely having more people onside makes it easier to change the system.
I agree that most people are good people and maybe just misinformed or have had their frustrations weaponised against them.
How do we tackle those problems you mentioned?
The reason I ask is I support your view here, but recently I’ve been downvoted a lot for having the opinion that I don’t blame people still using Twitter as I believe, like you, that most people are good people and can be reasoned out of what we believe are the wrong beliefs and that staying in those places to converse with them is better than Twitter becoming a right wing place and us chilling here in left wing ideology but at the end of that nobody learns anything they didn’t already know.
The hardest challenge in changing someone’s beliefs is that people don’t want to admit they were wrong or lied to or used or whatever and this makes it challenging if we can’t take our ego out of the equation.
Anecdotal proof that people can change is a YouTuber called JimmyTheGiant and he has mentioned several times how he went down the alt right pipeline but started to question things and now makes left leaning content.
Thanks for the reply.
This is the major factor for me, as I waste so much time waiting around and stuff and for me time is the most precious thing. I don’t care about money really, as long as I can pay my bills and do my hobbies it’s secondary to having fun pursuing my hobbies.
You’re also spot on about how his time keeping is improved back when I would be getting fucked up with them more frequently. Which to me highlights their priorities. Now as an addict (recovering) myself I tend to give people a lot of slack because I get it and I get what comes from that lifestyle. It’s just recently it’s been stressing me more.
Maybe I’ve spoiled him too much too because now a lot of the time it’s just expected that I’m buying food or paying for his fuel when we go to climb outside or something. Like he would even suggest we get takeaway for tea but has no money. Like what. I would never do that. Or if I offer him a drink from the shop he would say yes because it’s a free drink and not because he needs a drink right then, where I would be like nah I’m good if I don’t need one.
Thank you, as I tried to allude to in other comments, I am open to learning and as I’ve aged I have less ego.
I appreciate your feedback on writing and I am going to put this down to a lesson of the perils of overthinking (not just writing words myself).