On: Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

[ETHisso2017]

Some of the media pogroms against China in recent years might qualify. Huawei, Hong Kong, the South China Sea, Uighurs, the Yulin Dog Festival, the list goes on, but coverage of the country has been almost universally negative.

[SimbaOnSteroids → ETHisso2017]

Well it's [CCP] existence is objectively a net negative for the world, so what do you expect?

[Udik → SimbaOnSteroids]

I envy your certainties.

[merpnderp → Udik]

I think it’s easy to imagine an alternative history merely by looking at Taiwan.

[Udik → merpnderp]

Or another one by looking at Putin's Russia. Or at Africa.

[Nasrudith → ETHisso2017]

Truthful coverage of their actions resulting in being disliked isn't persecution. To call minimal accountability persecution is incredibly privileged.

It is like NSA employees whining at being called snoops when they spied on literally everyone!

[gataca → ETHisso2017]

What's positive about China's behavior in Hong Kong or their treatment of the Uighurs?

[kryptiskt → ETHisso2017]

Media pogroms? It takes a lot of nerve to use that word applied to a powerful government that has interned a million Uighurs without any due process at all. Yeah, that government is treated so unfairly. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.