A repost again. Let’s see if this comment gets deleted like last time. The irony of censoring a comment on free speech is lost on bigots, but still funny.
China: Democracy and Free Speech are our greatest threat.
According to the most recent report (2024), people in China have overwhelmingly positive views of their political system. 92% of people say that democracy is important to them, 79% say that their country is democratic, 91% say that the government serves the interests of most people (rather than a small group), and 85% say all people have equal rights before the law. Furthermore, China outperforms the US and most European countries on these indicators – in fact, it has some of the strongest results in the world. The figure below compares China’s results to those from the US, France and Britain. These results may help explain the high levels of satisfaction with government reported by the Ash Center.
Democracy: China is constantly evolving it’s democratic mechanisms, currently referred to as whole process democracy. In the West you can change the party but not the policies. In China you can change the policies but not the party.
Free Speech: defending the KKK with arguments for free speech is not the high minded position you think it is. Free speech includes fascism, cultism, chauvinism, and neoliberalism. Working against those things is a perennial obligation of any liberatory movement.
A repost again. Let’s see if this comment gets deleted like last time. The irony of censoring a comment on free speech is lost on bigots, but still funny.
China: Democracy and Free Speech are our greatest threat.
I’ll repost my response, then:
The opposite is true, actually.
Democracy: China is constantly evolving it’s democratic mechanisms, currently referred to as whole process democracy. In the West you can change the party but not the policies. In China you can change the policies but not the party.
Free Speech: defending the KKK with arguments for free speech is not the high minded position you think it is. Free speech includes fascism, cultism, chauvinism, and neoliberalism. Working against those things is a perennial obligation of any liberatory movement.