This could obviously be seen as a circle jerk post, but I’m just ranting a bit, need to get this annoyance off my chest after watching a crap video (The latest innuendo studios video, if you are curious, but that video isn’t important specifically here).
Liberals (The American Democrat kind) spend a lot of time talking about how the alt-right will throw a piece of junk science in your face in order to support their racist conclusions or false medical conspiracy theories. This is all fine and dandy because the alt-right are looking for anything that back a racist or sexist or anti-trans conclusion, even when the studies conclusion doesn’t really support that. I usually agree with the “American democratic liberals” in these cases.
But most social/political “studies” are pretty much junk, “we surveyed 100 young people in one city and now we think we know what the whole of American youth think”… Right… sure you do.
Plus history is one of the most contentious topics in all of… Well history ironically. You can’t just point to the winners and say “See, we won the war, so we’re definitely right about the history of the country we destroyed”… Buuuut…
Then they turn around and throw a junk survey or a junk “study” that has some anti-communist rhetoric, and you explain why it is junk and how it’s factually incorrect, they double down… Just like the alt-right does… Because they will believe anything that supports their anti-communist conclusions… Why does that sound familiar?
I’ve run through this so many times before, between anti-China “studies” and anti-Soviet rhetoric. They’re so willing to just blindly accept anything that the USA says, even stuff said during the Red Scare, for which even most of them will even admit was a time of deep propaganda. Exposing CIA declassified documents sometimes works, but often doesn’t anyway. How many times I’ve heard about “holodomor” or “Stalin killed more people than Hitler”. It’s just so aggravating.
End rant; have a good day
By the way, if you made it this far, I really appreciate this community because on the whole, people are willing to listen and talk to people so long as we are approached in good faith. We tend not to just spit on someone for asking an honest question (But it is totally funny to spit on someone who is clearly just an anti-commie fascist or something).
Don’t feel bad about feeling like you’re going down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Obviously be conscious of that and be careful, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of anti-China sentiment is a conspiracy theory in the first place.
I am a white guy, not an Asian American, but I’m glad that Asian Americans like you have class consciousness and understand what this country is truly about with regards to its propaganda. Obviously, most people who have immigrated here from communist countries have done so because they are capitalist friendly. I tried explaining this to a friend of mine when we were talking about the USSR. He said, oh, all the people here say how bad the USSR is. And I said, of course they do. They fled the USSR. They obviously don’t agree with its practices. The vast majority of people that stayed behind actually have positive feelings about the USSR In retrospect.
To be fair, I probably pushed him a little hard when I said that a lot of people that fled were the slave owners and horrible people, and he felt that I was implying that the descendants of those people are all horrible people too, which I didn’t mean to say. But that’s another off-topic rant.
One of the reasons that I fell in a commie-rapid hole is because I started actually looking at the evidence, supposed evidence rather, that Americans and NGOs and think tanks were pushing about their anti-China agenda. As someone who prides myself on being science-based and evidence-based, and when I was a liberal, someone who cared a lot about being correct in terms of scientific thinking, I found these “studies” terrible. Often refuting the claims that are in the title of the study itself or even if the title didn’t make that claim it was the news agency that did. Basically everything that these liberals are saying that the alt-right do to push their lies is exactly what the liberals do and they just eat it the fuck up because CNN/BBC said it instead of Fox News.
Very frustrating indeed.