I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn’t be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn’t anything happened since then? It’s like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination or 9/11, those are old news.
Ours also disappear.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/portland-protesters-being-detained-chased-federal-agents-situation-intensifies-n1234616
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility
Not nearly on the same level as what China does.
Or as pervasive.
It should be noted we’re actually free to talk about that in a way that you’d never be in China.
Is the US authoritarian? Absolutely. But compared to China or North Korea, it’s almost nothing.