• KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    This stuff applies always. It’s called critical thinking skills and it absolutely applies when someone is speaking “for the western narrative” too

    A Chinese source claiming Chinese are happy with their gvmnt doesn’t hold as much materiality as a western source claiming that Chinese are happy with their government. (And vice versa) Do you even know what bias is? So much for cirtical thinking on your part

    Look I know it’s easy to think that there’s a singular big bad out there. That there’s just this one entity called “the west” and you’ll be able to fight and conquer it. It’s easier to believe things are black and white, that certain countries are innately good and others innately bad at all times. But that’s not reality.

    And you talk about strawman GTFO shitlib

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      The commenter was questioning the validity of the organisation conducting the survey, which was weirdly not specifically mentioned in the research article. Saying that the data comes from some „reputable“ source is always very untrustworthy even when it’s regarding western countries.

      This just makes the science difficult to control/refute which is a necessary thing for good scientific research