Which is why you should support China, as a recent Harvard Kennedy School survey found that over 93% of the Chinese people are satisfied with their central government.
https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf See page 3
Facts don't care about your feelings
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Who is we? Me, an those around me? Yes. A bunch of western leftists on an internet forum? Go away. Your voices mean nothing in China and do not improve anything.
If you aren't in China then your efforts have no impact beyond whatever taste they leave in the mouths of your fellows.
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Whatever about criticism, that's fine. Just don't act like your criticism is changing anything or has the power to do so. It doesn't and we don't need or like the paternalistic attitude westerners have about us. I do some LGBT activism and don't like people on the English internet steamrolling over what I say with uninformed declarations and erase our efforts and then act like they're saving us by just talking.
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I am sorry if I seem prickly, I'm just very used to that kind of attitude and see it too easily. Informed discussion and criticism on these topics is valuable and gives good perspective, especially on international strategy. I definitely think that as things advance, more openly and loudly opposing the Washington Consensus will need to be high priority. In my mind it was probably better to gain a reputation on these efforts before announcing them, if only to not scare anyone early, but other cases could be made contrary. In all of these threads people should remind themselves though: any socialist project is bound to meet challenges against material reality and will not always be perfect even in the best of times. Denying these problems outright is opportunism. Rejecting the project as a whole for being imperfect is utopianism.
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