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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
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!!!"
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 
Might be a long semester if I stay in this course 
Edit: class has been dropped 
Missed opportunity to procedurally argue down every China fact and chalk it up to "propaganda and censorship and CCP lies".
China did not roll out a full-fledged domestic LLM in January 2025, China does not actually have the majority of the world's accessible rare earth metals, China does not have a GDP PPP of $33 trillion, and finish up with how China does not have 1.4 billion people because they are just fabricating all the statistics, and the only people you can trust about China are the Epoch Times.
You don't argue with these people on the points they're expecting. You make outrageous claims to catch them off guard and force them either to say "well it's not ALL propaganda", or to lean into something totally unhinged.