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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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[–] godisidog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, they’re not sending their best to teach the laowai courses.

[–] unaware@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's true, and plus I'm in Shanghai so liberalism is to be expected

[–] godisidog@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Shanghai so liberalism is to be expected

I will never forgive them for turning the site of the founding of the CPC into a luxury mall

angery

But Shanghai’s a great city in so many ways regardless, enjoy!