Quote (judson04 @ Oct 15 2019 07:23pm)
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For those of you who are not aware I'm a Trusted/inactive Med here, from the USA but have been living in China for 7 years now...
No offense to anyone, but you guys truly underestimate how influenced you are by our biased media sources. I also didn't realize it as much as I should until I lived outside the USA for a while. We are truly brainwashed by our biased media. Try your best to wake up and think for yourself...
The HK "freedom fighters" are not what you think they are. Just a few days ago some HK protester stabbed an unsuspecting police officer in the back of the neck with a box cutter "in the name of freedom" It didn't make CNN nor any of the one-sided news sources you read everyday because that would taint the romantic image of the HK protestors which profit our shitty news sources. The US Media Outlets give a biased anti-China account of what's going on to gain ratings and manipulate the situation so they can benefit from the situation.
The Hong Kong, SAR Gov't are just like "everyone chill out" meanwhile protesters destroy and loot and act like idiots. It's OK to throw pipe bombs at innocent police offers as long as you yell "freedom" beforehand? Fuck that..
In some ways, the HK protesters are similar to those who fly a Confederate Flag. Ignorant rednecks yelling "Freedom/Freebird!" Almost like some stupid South Park characters.
International News sources led to a particularly poignant comment: if anyone says anything even halfway deemed 'racist' our media sources will lunge at the opportunity to rile everyone to get out their pitchforks. So why is our media so quick to defend the borderline-terrorist separatist violent HK 'demonstrations' (which often involve attacking police who are forced to not retaliate for fear of backlash). You are so quick to defend the "freedom movement" but, how many of you would defend the Confederate States for trying to break apart from the USA for the "freedom" to establish their own legal system (aka hold slaves)?
How many of you also advocate for gun reform and think the 'NRA is the devil' even though some people think they right to have military automatic rifles is part of "American Freedom". Doesn't this 'freedom" also contribute to school shootings which is the same reason you call for gun reform? So why is fighting for "freedom" OK in HK when it calls for destruction and harm of innocent police officers but not OK in the USA? You are manipulated by our biased media sources. Will you also defend the NRA for the American Freedom to hold military machine guns?
China and Chinese people have every right to be pissed off for the ridiculously biased espousal of violent demonstrations which have in fact severely damaged HK instead of offer any benefit to the people or the city. Anyone who just whimsically supports the HK demonstrators is either ignorant of the situation, trying to frame themselves as some righteous "freedom fighter" not to actually benefit the people of HK but instead to try to benefit themselves. Unfortunately, because of how biased our media is, it's fashionable to support the HK 'protests' no matter how ridiculously violent and destructive they are.
My comments will probably spur a lot of backlash but no joke, you should at least read more international new sources before jump to conclusions. Stop getting your info from CNN/Fox News and wake up...
Love you all <3
You will struggle here. I tried having this conversation here and other places with American's, e.g.
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=81916049&f=202&p=550641542The main thing I learned from this, since I have known about things like this and seen it first hand, is how clueless and misguided American's are on these things.
It truly is frightening how brainwashed they are. Russia have started really capitalising on this recently, as we have seen, with their manipulations through American media.
They believe there is no propaganda from the USA, like there is in other countries, more overtly. It happens every day in the media, it's more subtle than other countries though which makes it less detectable.
Quote (CiroC @ Oct 15 2019 11:16pm)
And you’re white. White people gets treated differently especially in China. Don’t think you can relate to all the Chinese people who grew up over there.
They get treated differently in America too, far worse historically.
This post was edited by piatek on Oct 15 2019 04:17pm