Comment on TikToker’s trip to China: The influencer or the influenced? - How Beijing's network of influencers across various platforms try to shape narratives on issues critical to its foreign policy

dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hear me out, what if two wrongs don’t make a right?

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  • yozul@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What!? Next thing you know you’ll be telling me that imperialist nations are all bad and we shouldn’t be cheerleading the second biggest one just to spite the biggest.

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  • dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think either are good, but it’s funny how it’s bad when the other guy is doing it.

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    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both are bad, doing propaganda because the other side is doing it too only makes things worse, and people defending China because the US does it (or vice-versa) are bootlicking whataboutists.

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      • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you for calling this out. I’m disgusted by these people creeping out of the woodwork any time a dictatorship is being called out.

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is indeed reminiscent of all the western influencers being invited by armies, police forces or prison systems (especially in the US). They also get paid for portraying a highly idealized or fake image of these institutions. Albeit there is a difference in that these influencers know upfront what they are getting into. Wanting to vlog about e.g. harmless-looking Chinese lifestyle topics and it being made into propaganda is a bit more insidious.

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