Learning radically different languages ironically does the opposite; it helps you think about and communicate concepts. What this person is realistically saying here, is that they are so worried about being unable to teach their children to ask critical questions and read between the lines, media literacy, that they’ll put them in a box and project shame on to anyone who doesn’t do that.
There’s a counter argument that there’s just a flood of Chinese propaganda because media is under control.
The counter-counter argument is that they’re fluent in two languages and can easily see opposing opinion expressed in mainstream English language media and sort out for themselves where the truth lies.
Won’t someone please stop the truth from being contextualized in history! We have to protect the Western news media from undue critique! Let’s all band together and protect Bezos, Weiss, Ellison, Murdoch, Zuck, Musk, Dorsey, and every other rich fuck and dynasty that owns our local newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, and mass social media!!
You’re allowed to criticize Western power because you’re not a threat to Western power. You’re a joke. Obviously that wasn’t always true. If you were a communist you were blacklisted, censored, and if you were a successful organizer you were on a target list for the cops to kill you. Once they successfully purged all the communist organizers and sent them all running, you could say whatever you wanted.
Until recently. Now that communist consciousness is raising in the West once again, the Rs and the Ds are working together to denounce it and fight it, with the Rs in power throwing people in prison for 75 years for the crime of publishing communist literature.
It really requires you to fully disengage with history AND the present to believe that the Western media is not completely controlled by the owning class and that suffering no consequences for being an angry brat with no power means that therefore there is no censorship
Learning radically different languages ironically does the opposite; it helps you think about and communicate concepts. What this person is realistically saying here, is that they are so worried about being unable to teach their children to ask critical questions and read between the lines, media literacy, that they’ll put them in a box and project shame on to anyone who doesn’t do that.
There’s a counter argument that there’s just a flood of Chinese propaganda because media is under control.
The counter-counter argument is that they’re fluent in two languages and can easily see opposing opinion expressed in mainstream English language media and sort out for themselves where the truth lies.
Personally, the more languages the better.
As opposed to English language media which is has been controlled by the merchant class so long that it was responsible for the Opium Wars?
Fuck, the ml is leaking and getting all over everything again. Someone slap some duct tape on it
Won’t someone please stop the truth from being contextualized in history! We have to protect the Western news media from undue critique! Let’s all band together and protect Bezos, Weiss, Ellison, Murdoch, Zuck, Musk, Dorsey, and every other rich fuck and dynasty that owns our local newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, and mass social media!!
Yeah! You aren’t allowed to criticize the West on western platforms! Oh, wait…
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jester's_privilege
In the sense that you are a clown for comparing Chinese censorship to the western internet, yes!
You’re allowed to criticize Western power because you’re not a threat to Western power. You’re a joke. Obviously that wasn’t always true. If you were a communist you were blacklisted, censored, and if you were a successful organizer you were on a target list for the cops to kill you. Once they successfully purged all the communist organizers and sent them all running, you could say whatever you wanted.
Until recently. Now that communist consciousness is raising in the West once again, the Rs and the Ds are working together to denounce it and fight it, with the Rs in power throwing people in prison for 75 years for the crime of publishing communist literature.
It really requires you to fully disengage with history AND the present to believe that the Western media is not completely controlled by the owning class and that suffering no consequences for being an angry brat with no power means that therefore there is no censorship