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Enrolled in a class on Chinese politics and the first lecture was so unbelievably chock-full of lib talking points. Some that I can recall:

  • calling China a "closed autocracy" and "authoritarian"
  • mentioned that when surveyed, Chinese people rate the level of democracy in their country higher than Americans do for theirs, but with the caveat that they could be under "censorship"
  • showed the "democracy map" that's just this international-community-1 international-community-2 and of course China is lowly rated on the democracy scale
  • showed this chart that was literally like "Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler!!!" lenin-dont-laugh

There was also language about how the Core Socialist Values get "hammered" into people's heads in China, which definitely doesn't happen in the free West sans-troll

Might be a long semester if I stay in this course cringe

Edit: class has been dropped kel-bliss

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[โ€“] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In undergrad I took a course on the USSR and simply didn't attend the lectures I knew would be cringe covering the 30s. The rest of it was really good, no lib stuff. The prof even said the CIA was on the ground during the hungarian revolution. The tests were all essay questions and my passive knowledge as a communist was enough to get an A+ lol

China as an AES state will never get this treatment in the west sadly

[โ€“] jack@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

China as an AES state will never get this treatment in the west sadly

it will once we complete the revolution tho