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  • DessalinesA
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    7 hours ago

    Who told you that the people of China are propagandized, especially to hate other countries and peoples as much as the US does?

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      4 hours ago

      Their access to news is controlled and for some topics all available news is what we’d call propaganda. Particularly anything about Japan or the Taiwan issue. Most people I know there realize this to an extent but without any other information do still believe the core idea even if skeptical of details.

      But at the same time I’d argue there’s no such thing as a population that’s not propagandized. In the US the big news corporations only will present views favorable to their profitability and continued growth. Sure they disagree with eachother, but it’s still always a pro-business view. State news from Russia is (I’d argue rightly) not available on many US platforms to discourage it’s influence for example.

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      4 hours ago

      Woah I never recognized your username in the wild before. Thanks for giving us Lemmy. Huge fan.

      • DessalinesA
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        6 hours ago

        Scroll down, addressed this three times in this thread already.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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          6 hours ago

          You mean how both China, and the US propagandize their citizens? Yeah, I’m fully aware of that already. All states will do it, as a system of control over the working class, in order to continue to exploit them.

          I mean, if controlling the people wasn’t the goal, whats the purpose of the oppression of a state?