Anonymous wrote:So how is a culture so uniformly praiseworthy also predicated on Uyghur genocide camps, massacring student protestors in Tiananmen Square, the widespread adulteration of food products with dangerous contaminants like melamine and cyanuric acid, wet markets, counterfeit medications, the downplaying and frank lying about the seriousness of COVID, etc.?
It seems like you are praising the very schooling that by government fiat is prohibited from looking at (or even mentioning) its own ongoing and recent atrocities. "Valuing community" in this context is possible when you can define some within the community as inhuman or without civil rights. the tight control of information and thought goes hand in hand with flagrant censorship.
There are wonderful things about China, and they come hand in hand with terrible ones. When you praise one, you are accepting and praising the other, which naturally follows from the first.
That is silly way to look at things and how we got to this dismal place in the 1st place. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George wasington bought and sold people, ran prison camps as their homes, raid and whipped human beings for not doing their bidding. They also built the built the foundations of the most ethical and liberal society known to human kind. and we arent any better than them- we also do terrible things or allow them- our entire economic system is predicated on the abuse of labor far far away, including Chinese factory workers.
We destroyed an entire fledgling liberal democratic government and installed a monarch b/c one of our allies didnt want to have to pay the local populace its fair share in oil revenue! the migrants fleeing the golden triangle- they are fleeing violence that is fueled by the Hollywood and Wall Street partiers snorting cocaine to have a good time. If casual use of speed would be eschewed, the heroin trade alone doesnt make enough money and we can grow and tax our own cannabis- it would hollow out the cartels. how many of us are going to stop doing a line here or there b/c it. gives money to dangerous drug cartels? NONE. We are also the source of a lot of good, we insist on a bare minimum of human rights in many. places, we do give asylum and new chance at life to 1000s, we give more in food aid than any other nation. teh entire world order depends on teh United States and we have created afar more peaceful and prosperous state of affairs than any empire that came before us for all of our faults. Both things can be true, besides the Creator, nothing is faultless.