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Funny thing is that you've got a new crop of YouTube streamers going to these regions in China and coming out of them immersed in the culture and lifestyle that we've been told repeatedly was exterminated.
We also had a UN Human Rights investigation into the region that came out woefully short of what western media sources reported, such that anti-China critics are now complaining that the UN isn't a reliable investigator.
It all reeks of the same march to war we heard with Iraq. IAEA investigators running through the country looking for nuclear weapons that don't exist. Hair-raising stories about babies being ripped from incubators and smashed to death by soldiers that turned out to be wild fabrications. Religious cult groups insisting they were being horribly persecuted, when its later discovered they were - themselves - caught up in all sorts of human rights abuses and financial scandals.
Its so weird to see the knee-jerk Lemmy response to skepticism of China Hawks boil down to "You're too stupid to work at McDonalds". Like, fuck me, man. That's so corporate-brained, it makes me nauseous. Even outside the realm of HailCorporate Reddit and psycho hustler culture Twitter, you've still got folks who value a human's intellectual capacity and innate humanity by how much money they can produce for shareholders.
Youre damn right a totalitarian dictatorship with history of mass murder would want to whitewash their reputation.
So now the UN is a totalitarian dictatorship?