All my friends are pretty anti China and it puts me in this weird position where like, if they say something casually anti China I usually can’t help but say something. But they all kinda have the same perspective (standard liberal western perspective on china), and then I look like some unreasonable person. Like I had a friend bring up the uygher genocide, the social credit scores, and tbh idk how to even respond to this without coming off as a crank. Part of me is like whatever, it’s just not worth it. But now they make comments to me whenever china is brought up and I think they’ve already started seeing me as a crank. It kinda suck.
Obviously to me this is somewhat immaterial anyway. Like, being pro or anti China doesn’t make a huge difference in my day to day. My perspective though is that US is a major aggressor towards China and like, I don’t want to be a part of that in my day to day. But pushing back against propaganda is kinda hard and damaging because people basically see me as a Holocaust denier
See I’m just complaining though. Because the more I argue the more like a crank I seem. They are pro Palestine though.