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I guess I was right in being suspicious of western urbanists who were always deafeningly silent on massive projects in China but won’t shut up for weeks about the Dutch king taking a bike-shaped shit. This is how they respond when they are forcibly confronted with the topic.

  • proceduralnightshade
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    3 days ago

    This is really common in the west, especially with middle class people. I don’t know why they do it, I think it’s years of propaganda. My father used to complain about China in a similar way too, and I grew up with everybody regularly joking about the cheap (cheap as in low quality, not low price) plastic crap they produce and export. I mean to this day there’s YouTube videos like “I bought this thing from China, is it any good?”

    On one hand, it’s anecdotes like “hey diiid you know they’re doing this ILLEGAL cloning and biotech science experiments in China?!?”, on the other hand they say “nnaah they can’t possibly come up with their own high tech” (while implying “only white westerners could”). It’s so wild and it’s pissing me off so much, not because it’s anti-China but because it’s so obviously propaganda and just plain fucking stupid

    I know this was a rhetorical question you hexbear people usually know your shit haha. Just needed to idk vent get this out whatever