No evidence at all, says Xi, vigorously brushing his hands together while standing on a particularly lumpy rug.
China and their government is to blame for so many actual documented atrocities. I don't understand why people need to make up bullshit conspiracies as well. All it does is weaken the actual documented atrocities that really do occur by normalising the idea that everyone blames China for everything.
If we talk about the actual causes (deforestation and the wet markets being used to maintain the 5% growth China needs to keep their population docile) this doesn't really work for blame shifting. It's too abstract.
But a lab accident at a bio-weapons facility? That's easy. Blame the Chinese military. If you're lucky you'll get a new cold war and tons of extra spending on weapons in the deal.
It's a blame game. The last administration's response to the pandemic was appalling, with studies showing it caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths (around 200k on the low end and as much as 400k on the high end).
For something like that we need individuals to blame. We need to be able to say it was such and such at such and such lab. And China for their party doesn't really mind the conspiracy theories. They're gonna take a hit no matter what, this way nobody questions their slash and burn economy or those wet markets the epidemiologists have warned us about for 30 years...
'No Evidence' says Xi (Score:2, Insightful)
No evidence at all, says Xi, vigorously brushing his hands together while standing on a particularly lumpy rug.
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No evidence at all, says Xi, vigorously brushing his hands together while standing on a particularly lumpy rug.
China and their government is to blame for so many actual documented atrocities. I don't understand why people need to make up bullshit conspiracies as well. All it does is weaken the actual documented atrocities that really do occur by normalising the idea that everyone blames China for everything.
The "narrative" becomes counter to its own goals.
It's important to blame individuals, not systems (Score:3)
If we talk about the actual causes (deforestation and the wet markets being used to maintain the 5% growth China needs to keep their population docile) this doesn't really work for blame shifting. It's too abstract.
But a lab accident at a bio-weapons facility? That's easy. Blame the Chinese military. If you're lucky you'll get a new cold war and tons of extra spending on weapons in the deal.
It's a blame game. The last administration's response to the pandemic was appalling, with studies showing it caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths (around 200k on the low end and as much as 400k on the high end).
For something like that we need individuals to blame. We need to be able to say it was such and such at such and such lab. And China for their party doesn't really mind the conspiracy theories. They're gonna take a hit no matter what, this way nobody questions their slash and burn economy or those wet markets the epidemiologists have warned us about for 30 years...