Comment by JumpCrisscross
3 months ago
> the underlying causes being addressed is like saying that redlining no longer exists because its not called that or that racism is gone
A lot of people in America work on pointing out where redlining still exists. It was being litigated even last year [1].
China is not a responsive political system. It was designed to be responsive only over the long term, and Xi trashed even that with his dictator-for-life nonsense.
> conditions have worstened and when these shootings and lynchings happen now they dont even get mainstream news coverage
Sorry, what secret lynching are you talking about? We'd love to update the Wikipedia from its 1981 record [2].
[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-si...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Michael_Donald
This is precisely my point. We define a historical era with things like red lining and lynching but they never stopped. The manipulation of education and words works perfectly: there's no reason to suppress speech.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-...
> We define a historical era with things like red lining and lynching but they never stopped
No, but their frequency went down. Because we didn't stop talking about it and have independent courts that let the laws be enforced indpeendent of whether the President at the time thought it was a priority.
That's the contrast with China. And by the way, we're still talking about Tiananmen. We haven't even touched Mao and the Great Leap Forward or Xi's late-Soviet style corruption [1].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/world/asia/chinas-preside...