• davelA
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      These kinds of news articles are an example of how universities are being increasingly pressured by state actors to be more critical of China.

      High numbers of Chinese students at Australian universities have created an environment of self-censorship with lecturers avoiding criticism of Beijing and Chinese students staying silent in fear of harassment, Human Rights Watch said.

      Human Rights Watch’s core mission is to publish negative propaganda about states that the US wants to have regime changed. The purpose of this article is to put pressure on universities to get in line with the new cold war.

      Citations Needed podcast: Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex

      I try to lead folks toward developing real media literacy: https://lemmy.ml/post/17665401/12094932

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        … you’re posting a podcast titled “CitationS Needed” that’s clearly trying to pass its self off as famous YouTuber Tom Scott’s “Citation Needed” (no plural) and it features Trump supporter, Glenn Greenwald (his fall from grace and later support of Trump is well documented, up there with Michael Moore, and Matt Tabili).

        https://link.motherjones.com/public/35592388

        It’s pretty sad that this is your idea of media literacy - name swapped podcasts and deadbeat Trump supporters.

        Who did I present as evidence again? A small news agency known as Reuters? …and your idea of media litteracy is - a podcast pretending to be a more famous podcast.

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          Okay, stay confidently incorrect in the Five Eyes corporate media bubble then 👍

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                I know right, the cowardly mods on .ml just nuked my comment because they can’t handle that perspective… I didn’t swear at you (and you know this), I didn’t aim to be insulting - it’s just indicative of the fragility of the marxist left today when it comes to discourse they can’t combat, compute, and have no reasonable response to.

                Users have to be protected because apparently they need to be kept in a state of false consciousness for a Marxist left to continue. Which as Marxists you should all be worried about (it hints at an issue with Marxist party politics). But you lot may well not understand what I’ve said.

                Good luck having your eyes protected for purely ideological reasons… And good Marxists should know - he wasn’t a huge fan of ideology or respecting it as causal or desirable.

                He was very practical, hence concrete historical materialism.