I think there’s also the fact that a lot of things can be understood as “censorship” even when we don’t normally call it that. Moderating, blocking, filtering, defederating, etc.

Libs are so used to calling all the bad parts of liberalism by a different name that they really believe they’re not [doing the thing] while [doing the thing]. Like how they’re not concentration camps, they’re “immigration overflow facilities.” And they don’t sell weapons, they “provide lethal aid.” And they definitely don’t impoverish millions of people in order to incite war, no they uh “apply targeted sanctions” or something.

They probably, genuinely, don’t see the contradiction in advocating for free speech while banning stuff instinctively. They categorically don’t see it that way, because they’re the ones doing it.

Someone already posted the brainwashing vs moral licensing essay so I just wanna add that if an American takes an anti-imperialist stance on their history, then they are grievously implicating themselves and everyone they know.

Because if the US hasn’t been fighting for freedom all this time, then what does that say about Americans? What does that say about you?

Most Americans prefer to avoid the question and the associated introspection because their lives are distant enough and comfortable enough that they can. Also, everyone understands what resisting the US entails, whether they’ll admit it or not, and know to keep their head down or else.

Westerners refuse to believe that about half the fatalities were PLA members because in their countries, the police would never be unarmed, never abandon their equipment, never hesitate to kill in retaliation.

Westerners also don’t pity the murdered PLA officers because they view them the same as their own police: violent people that eagerly abuse their power.

Your school had 9/11 roleplay?? Every year?? LMAO

That’s Chinese disinformation! And Lao disinformation! And Kazakh and Cuban and Vietnamese and… listen, Americans need to be fed a strict media diet or else they’ll start having thoughts.

Honestly it doesn’t take any convincing to make Americans support atrocities. The US can just do them and Americans will invent justifications all on their own.

⚠️ TRADE OFFER ⚠️

🇺🇦 gets: unusable weapons

🇺🇲 gets: to own all your industries

It’s really hard to exaggerate how heinous the US is. It’s why all the fearmongering about China has to be cartoonishly extreme. Anything less than that would be tame in comparison to the stuff Americans provably, currently do.

you have emojis i can’t use >:(

If we tell chuds that they sound like Pelosi do you think they’d stop and reflect or double down?