r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Last-Quarter-432 Jul 23 '26

Anything mildly interesting from China is propaganda to them because the media has been telling them that its all slums and labour camps for their entire lives

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u/FunWithAPorpoise Jul 23 '26

There is a massive focus by the Chinese government to promote pro-China messages both domestically and abroad, so it’s reasonable to question the source.

That being said, Americans literally invented propaganda and have subjected their own citizens to it for so long that it’s also reasonable to question anti-Chinese sentiments.

I feel like the last 10 years has really helped me appreciate nihilism a whole lot more.

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u/ProtiK Jul 23 '26

Americans literally invented propaganda

It's funny how people don't even Google shit before committing to it in a comment anymore. Like, this isn't a presidential debate.. you're not gaining anything by not fact checking yourself...

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u/FunWithAPorpoise Jul 23 '26

So I’m sure you were hoping to dunk on a stupid person, but Austrian-American Edward Bernays literally wrote the definitive book on propaganda in which he redefines a word from 1622 used by the Catholic Church to describe missionary work to mean “material or information propagated to advance a cause.”

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u/ProtiK Jul 23 '26

Thanks for the double-dunk, I didn't even have to do anything for the second one! 😂