Comment on New research shows that propaganda is on the rise in China

• holetz@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What a nice unibased profile you got there. Looks more like an American propaganda bot.

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• solo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean. Could you please explain?

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  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Whataboutery

    […] Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one’s opponent of similar or worse faults […]

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    • solo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I pointed out that propaganda is present not only in China, but in the US as well. I tried to expand the argument, not talk about something else. At least that was my intention.

      And what about this thing you said for slrpnk.net is the new lemmy.ml?

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      • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They are upset you are trying to turn their china bashing into a discussion on propaganda

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      esponding to criticism by accusing

      There are no accusations. Just statements of fact.

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• freagle@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So let’s say sea levels are on the rise everywhere, right? And then let’s say a journalist says “something strange is going on in the Indian Ocean, it’s rising”, yeah? And they never once mention anything about any other oceans. Would that be appropriate journalism? If someone says “Hey, all oceans are rising” are you gonna say “that’s whataboutery”?

  No, you’re not. So when propaganda is on the rise globally, with the USA and Europe leading the pack as they have been for several hundred years, and someone writes an article about Chinese propaganda being on the rise, and they work for one of the propaganda outlets of an enemy of China, do you think that would appropriate journalism?

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