Ah yes, the propagandist take on things. I’ve seen more than a few videos of Chinese police robbing people/business right out in the open. Anybody that stands in their way gets brutalized.
The CCP are so dishonest we have no idea what even happens to most of their prisoners. It is likely China executes the most prisoners in the world.
And here we have another cornerstone of the racist hate speech - substituting “Chinese” with “CCP”, same way they used to replace “Jews” with “Zionism”.
I'm not sure what people think comments like this accomplish. Americans aren't super gung ho about America. The great universal American past-time is criticizing America.
> HN is a particularly whiny place when it comes to China.
China is the #2 economy in the world. America is constantly whining about the #1 economy in the world, why would they not also whine about #2? The truth is that there's nothing unique to Americans complaining about China. A lot of what Americans complain about China is quite similar to what they complain about America. This is especially true with authoritarian sentiment, with the fear that China will be the model used for the US against themselves. Yeah, there's a few "fuck China, America best" but I'd be shocked if the was anywhere near the mean or average sentiment. People are more complicated than this and Americans are just vocal about everything. Because they're so vocal, it is easy to ignore some things and pay attention to others, especially when they validate your internal biases (such as complaining about your country, which is nationalism).
At the same time many Americans don’t quite believe non-Americans are proper humans. See how they justify invading other countries. Or how any comment critical of US gets flagged as “Chinese comment farm”.
> Also, the country with largest percentage of imprisoned people is US, not China. It’s also not China where police routinely murders random people on the streets with impunity.
This is a very tough argument to make given how China has very little freedom of press, speech, association or information.
The problem with these Chinese comment farms is they think we like the US. They take something bad about China as an insult to them personally, and think doing the same will bother the western world. Hah, nope, we hate it too.
A fundamental misunderstanding of how people think. But they tie their identity to their own government so completely they are literally blind to the rest of the world.
The problem with American shills like the above is they don’t understand the difference between what they consciously (want to) believe - like them not being racist - and what they actually do believe subconsciously, eg that anyone who points out their shilling is some “Chinese comment farm”.
