I've mentioned before that I have a very large extended family and I got into an argument with a cousin of mine the other day. I generally try to ignore him when he goes on his rants but he was defending CRT and how people are trying to erase history and I couldn't keep silent. Besides being told I'm an Uncle Tom or that I "do the bidding of white supremacists" he gave me the usual talking points that I'm sure everyone has heard ad nauseam.
I asked him who specifically is holding him back, and if he is so concerned about history what is stopping him from getting all the books he wants about whatever topic. Long story short, he stopped talking to me when I said he makes no sense whatsoever, and asked why he doesn't put this energy into helping organizations who work to free victims of slavery/sex trafficking today.
More and more I am very grateful my parents would always tell me that the world owed me nothing and that life is not always fair. I swear a lot of young people seem to be taught that everything will go their way and if it doesn't then you can blame some vague concepts like "systemic racism" or "the patriarchy". Combine that with the endless talk about disparities as if that isn't something that will always occur naturally. Some people have it better than you, some have it worse, some make better choices, and some don't. Life if full of things like that, but there is this ridiculous idea that everything can be perfectly equal if the right people are in power.
I used to think I could open some eyes but I guess I can't, some people are determined to be victims or wallow in their self imposed oppression.
Good point! But I doubt China will want to destroy its vassals like the US does. China may want to undermine our countries as long as we are not in its orbit. Once we are, we're in the clear.
Of course. But they were not funding environmental crap in Poland or Czechoslovakia.
Okay, that's a good point - but they had other ways to demoralize these societies to keep them down, namely force. So sure, if it was 50 years ago and China was the USSR, they'd just send in tanks (Prague Spring) or threaten to, and replace wokeism with conservative communism - so you'd get cancelled for listening to the wrong radio station and owning subversive literature instead of... getting cancelled for liking the wrong tweet or making the wrong gesture. It's not an improvement.
But it's not 50 years ago, and China isn't the USSR; brute force looks bad in the news and tanks cost a ton of money, so I'm guessing China will not go that route, and instead bribe a few spineless Western politicians to do whatever China wants, and they'll demoralize and destabilize their own populations through wokeism. It's already in full effect in Australia and Canada, they're both Chinese colonies, and the wokeism is only getting worse as China secures its rule.
I think that is not going to work in this day and age, considering the disastrous end of Iraq and Afghanistan, let alone the Eastern European satellite states. The best China can hope for is alliance partners. Now, I doubt that they will want to undermine their alliance partners like the Americans do - e.g. with the pride flag on the Afghan embassy months before the Taliban overran the country. That's what I meant.
Ah, almost exactly what I thought (also China will not be able to project power in the same manner because of its location).
If you can bribe politicians to do your bidding, why would you then weaken their countries? Presumably you want them to be strong in order to be of maximum benefit to you.