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Chinese police beat a BBC journalist and briefly arrested him while he was covering protests (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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China's government said the reporter hadn't presented his press credentials.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Conservatives wanna be proud of their own country and tacitly push the idea that other countries are worse in some sense 🤷

It's unfortunate but it happens. It takes a lot proximity and trust to change one's perspective on life, so it is probably not going to happen in public online spaces

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And self awareness and good old fashioned honesty are hard to come by these days I guess. Not much we can do (in a fast, easy fashion) when folks prefer easy comfortable lies over cold hard reality.