And the content of the videos will have as much anti-China propaganda as possible. Or the issues will be framed in such a way as to align with the Western narratives regarding China.
Shit Reactionaries Say@lemmygrad.ml•This Australian guy annoys me with his sensationalist videosbykredditacc@lemmygrad.ml
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I suspect that these waves of recommendation might have been intentionally pushed by the propaganda machine. In the past, it was a wave of right-wing and neoliberal narratives. When that no longer work (for the majority of people), they retreat to more subtle and less overt narratives (such as this type of videos).
I watched his videos. That racist thing and that Epstein thing. Both were one-sided. Both painted a grim picture, a hopeless picture.
For the Chinese Epstein video, his framing was that the Chinese justice system and the Chinese government are hopelessly corrupt. The powerful protect the powerful. The powerful blackmail the powerful. And that it is only after some guy having “sought asylum” in the US that the whole thing was exposed. He also made it as if the fight on corruption is not about corruption, that it is was about factional purges first.
For the racism video. And I need the more knowledgeable people to verify this. There are comments under his video accusing him of misrepresenting the case where the Hong Kong man (in USA) shot an African-American kid. That the Hong Kong man did not merely shoot the kid out of fear and reflect. That he pursued and shot the kid. This in effect also stirred a lot of Black reactionary sentiments which advocate fighting racism with racism (they’ll be racist against other minority groups too). Furthermore, Han Chauvinism and ultra-nationalist sentiments do exist in China, but they are directed more so at neighboring countries and Southeast Asia. African people are the least of their concern.
One can make a topic of discussion more palatable to liberal left without telling half-truths. These videos of his, I have the impression that the purpose was more so to explain away the rise of popularity of China amongst the progressives, and to protect the legitimacy and validity of the existing liberal establishments. “Yes, the West has problems. But look, China is also just as bad!”