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Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told." (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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My therapist made a comment about how China is a failed socialist experiment because they have 2-3 year olds working in factories. I responded "So we've been told." She looks at me like I'm crazy. (Not a great look for a therapist) "I've not seen any evidence of that."

"Because they're such a closed country!"

"Which means you have no evidence to your point either?"

"Well, missionaries... anyway!"

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[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

To be fair this is at least vaguely based in reality, at least for the urban middle classes. The combination of pressure to get good exam results + four grandparents doting on one child + both parents working, often absently + economic growth meant a lot of millennial kids (my generation) were extremely coddled. I didn’t grow up in China but I saw how my cousins grew up and yeah. The flip side was that they had to take twenty supplementary classes a week or something just to “keep up”, thank fuck the government has banned that shit how.