To further #humanrights & human dignity for all people in China, the National Endowment for Democracy has funded Uyghur groups since 2004. #NEDemocracy #HumanRightsDay https://t.co/C0LJEyWxq1 pic.twitter.com/OqZdehdxXN— NEDemocracy (@NEDemocracy) December 10, 2020
Most USAmerican people wouldn’t even know the implications of this tweet in vacuum. That is how cursed the mainstream discourse and the popular understanding of international geopolitics and the US security state are.
“National Endowment for Democracy? Sounds like a nice democratic organisation.”
Obviously this problem is not isolated to the USA.
Hell, even if they did know it wouldn’t matter. Even western leftists who know about the Iraq WMD line fall into the same trap. There is this idea of the PRC, that if anything else they are authoritarian, they are murderous (communism killed blah blah), they are loud and rude (tourists), they are sloppy and cut corners (made in China LOL) that’s already floating around. The thought is that even if the CIA was funding terrorists, it wouldn’t be farfetched for the PRC to also commit genocide or have concentration camps or whatever.
The NED is a front to allow the CIA to funnel money into groups that protest against popular governments that the US doesn’t like. The Western media then covers these protests with a deliberately positive outlook to foment public consent for the US to possibly undertake regime change. Recent examples of this were Venezuela and the protests in Hong Kong, Belarus.
Imagine if it came to light that Russia was funding protest groups in the US. The media loses its shit about Russian, Iranian and Chinese intervention in elections without no evidential backing so it probably wouldn’t go well. But the US with its exceptionalism can do with mithout much consequences.
Most USAmerican people wouldn’t even know the implications of this tweet in vacuum. That is how cursed the mainstream discourse and the popular understanding of international geopolitics and the US security state are.
“National Endowment for Democracy? Sounds like a nice democratic organisation.”
Obviously this problem is not isolated to the USA.
I wonder how many people just thought “Oh they probably mean groups like soup kitchens and Xinjiang’s Gahndi. They want democracy after all.”
Hell, even if they did know it wouldn’t matter. Even western leftists who know about the Iraq WMD line fall into the same trap. There is this idea of the PRC, that if anything else they are authoritarian, they are murderous (communism killed blah blah), they are loud and rude (tourists), they are sloppy and cut corners (made in China LOL) that’s already floating around. The thought is that even if the CIA was funding terrorists, it wouldn’t be farfetched for the PRC to also commit genocide or have concentration camps or whatever.
Speaking. I’m guessing it’s a bit of work, but would anyone be willing to help me get up to speed?
The NED is a front to allow the CIA to funnel money into groups that protest against popular governments that the US doesn’t like. The Western media then covers these protests with a deliberately positive outlook to foment public consent for the US to possibly undertake regime change. Recent examples of this were Venezuela and the protests in Hong Kong, Belarus.
Imagine if it came to light that Russia was funding protest groups in the US. The media loses its shit about Russian, Iranian and Chinese intervention in elections without no evidential backing so it probably wouldn’t go well. But the US with its exceptionalism can do with mithout much consequences.
Do you have links for further reading? Never heard of this group (not American). Is this an actual US state organization or an NGO?
This is a sourced article about them: https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy
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