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What's up with this straight up pro-china and pro-russia stuff on Lemmy lately?

It's not even praising the people of China and Russia, but rather their gov directly.

Obviously the states have problems, and the EU to a lesser degree, but they at least have some human rights.

Is this some kind of organized disinformation campaign?

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While the support to Israel is undeniable and the EU members supported the US in unnecessary wars multiple times, it’s hard to read “the EU is sometimes worse than China” without questioning what you are talking about.

"While it's true that EU has and continues to do things far worse than anything China has done, how can you possibly say that the EU is sometimes worse than China!"

Its impossible to read this without coming to conclusion that you fundamentally don't consider non-westerners human, except when they can be used as a cudgel against their enemies. Imagine trying to claim that we should consider China's treatment of Muslims worse than the countries currently engaging in a modern Holocaust against Muslims.

And Tiananmen Square was forty years ago. If you actually listened all of the things that the EU has done since then that were as bad or worse, you would be writing a novel. You would need to have a Tiananmen square massacre every day for a decade just to equal the amount of people the West killed in Iraq alone.