• @DaDaDrood@feddit.nl
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    741 year ago

    I read this ‘article’. There are zero references towards the so called ‘China Bashing’. If it is so rampant, how hard can it be to just link to a few mainstream offenders? It alludes towards a deliberate bashing, once again without any links or merit. I am fully aware that news is hardly unbiased but come on, this is ridiculous.

      • @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org
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        181 year ago

        A Chinese corporation openly tested those spy balloons over my country a decade ago (allegedly just for monitoring livestock), why is it so unbelievable that they’d use a more polished version on their biggest geopolitical rival?

      • @DaDaDrood@feddit.nl
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        81 year ago

        Give me a source that shows the blatant and deliberate anti China rhetoric about the ‘spy balloon’.

      • @DaDaDrood@feddit.nl
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        471 year ago

        I have been following media intensively. I am not saying that news about China is unbiased in the western media. I am calling out the lack of any sources in this weak ‘article’

          • @DaDaDrood@feddit.nl
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            411 year ago

            1 I don’t know this outlet, nor am inclined to use perceived pedigree to determine the quality of news. I’d like to see sources, not news dresses as opinions. 2 Opinion pieces that try to be credible need sources or else I will disregard them as petty trolling. The title makes a bold claim, I want sources backing up that claim. 3 that ‘source’ is also an opinion peace without any sources.

            Just show me where mainstream media is deliberately bashing China. If it’s that rampant it can’t be that hard right?

            • @zephyreks@lemmy.mlOP
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              51 year ago

              Again, have you been living under a rock for the past few years? You can even look at the top posts of this community.

              • @DaDaDrood@feddit.nl
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                351 year ago

                I’m not the one making bald claims. The onus is on the one with the claims. Just show me some sources!

                  • @sparkl_motion@beehaw.org
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                    171 year ago

                    Then link the supposed data points backing up this claim.

                    You’ve refused to do so within this thread, only using “You don’t know!” as a reply.

                    Link the supposed data or GTFO. That’s what every person has stated and you’ve refused to comply.

      • Gamma
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        441 year ago

        That’s not a defense. Opinion pieces can be fine, but if you’re claiming that something is off the charts you should probably have some charts (or any points of data) to prove the claim.

        • @zephyreks@lemmy.mlOP
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          51 year ago

          Then… Disprove it? If there’s such distinct evidence that counters the article, might as well use it in your argument lol

            • @zephyreks@lemmy.mlOP
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              21 year ago

              Do I need to? I haven’t had a visceral reaction to the article.

              For what it’s worth, China’s affirmative action policies for minority groups put the US to shame. Significantly easier college admissions (despite using a standardized process), extremely generous business loans, proportional ethnic representation in government, vast infrastructure projects to bridge the salary gap, and celebrations of different cultures across the country. Not very capitalist of them, given that these infrastructure projects (while very beneficial to the endpoints) are not profitable.

              • @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org
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                231 year ago

                Treating minorities better than the USA isn’t exactly a high bar.

                My country also treats minorities better than the USA, it’s easy to get into uni, celebrates diversity, has an alright social welfare system and socialised healthcare, does the occasional infrastructure project etc.

                Thanks for teaching me that I’m actually living in a socialist paradise rather than a poor, neoliberal capitalist, physically isolated island where private corporations are free to wreck the environment for profit!

              • Gamma
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                Nobody else has had a visceral reaction, we’ve just pointed out bad journalism 🙂 Using big negative words might make you feel better, but it doesn’t make them accurate. You’re using them to be dismissive of our points

              • @SugarApplePie@beehaw.org
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                11 year ago

                Significantly easier college admissions (despite using a standardized process), extremely generous business loans, proportional ethnic representation in government, vast infrastructure projects to bridge the salary gap, and celebrations of different cultures across the country. Not very capitalist of them

                Sorry OP but basically none of this has anything to do with not being capitalist. I don’t even doubt that China is doing better in those departments than America, but that has more to do with how utterly shit America is at most things outside of building bombs than how communist China is. They should get some kudos for executing a couple billionaires, though, gotta at least give 'em that.