Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don’t have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.

I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I’ve noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.

Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.

Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.

Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    292·
    3 months ago

    China just looks less bad in comparison than it used to be. When western governments don’t give a fuck about human rights anymore, they have no standing to criticize China over it. And when western media refuse to even address an ongoing genocide carried out with western weapons and money, trust in them is lost and people start to doubt whether the stories they tell about the evil adversary China are true after all.

    In my opinion, of the two shitty governments in question, I believe China actually has the well-being of its citizens more in mind than do the oligarchs controlling the USA. China’s quality of life for its people has been rising by leaps and bounds in the past fifty years. Meanwhile over here the best people who aren’t in the 1% can hope for is stagnation, while for the majority things are just getting continually worse.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
      282·
      3 months ago

      Yes, that was always the Chinese government’s deal with its citizens: We make your life better, as long as you don’t rebel, resist or demand “freedom”.
      And the western model was “we give you personal freedom, consumer goods and some participation in government, so you don’t demand an actual redistribution of wealth and power”.

      But in many western countries, especially in the US, the rich and powerful have stopped honoring their part of the bargain, while the Chinese government is holding up their end.

    • yucandu@lemmy.world
      51·
      3 months ago

      China’s quality of life for its people has been rising by leaps and bounds in the past fifty years.

      You have a long way to leap when you start out so far behind.

      Don’t forget the main reason western countries moved all their manufacturing there is because of their lack of labour rights.