So my water chemistry professor was lecturing us about climate change, and said
“By the way, China is set to reach its 2030 carbon reduction goals in around 4 years.” Which is the first time I’ve heard a professor say anything about China that wasn’t red scare paranoia.
A student said incredulously, “How?!?!”
The professor just shugged and said “I dunno, ask them.”
I fought the urge to explain how.
Communist planning and a high value placed on educating people and the science sector babyyyyy.
You’d be surprised how much red scare propaganda there is in Chinese majors (or maybe not). I got incredulous reactions from my teacher when I said China was doing the right thing wrt covid regulations.
But the one time that broke was in a cinema studies class where a student was denouncing China for its genocide in Xinjiang and our professor was someone who had studied in Xinjiang, and recently as well. They basically responded to that student’s rant with “be very suspicious of news coming out of Xinjiang, the US has a history of using atrocity propaganda for nefarious reasons”.
It’s great because every time I share anything positive about China, my acquaintance who taught English in Taiwan for four years immediately launches into a rant about China Bad and I basically have to be like “There is zero actual evidence for anything you’re saying” and they pull the ol’ Well, i lived in Taiwan card out
I’d stop talking to them, but y’know, I feel like they might turn around eventually
I fought the urge to explain how.
Rare dirt_owl L
To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type [of anxiety]
You just made me read combat liberalism, and now I feel like shit because I meet like 6 of the types of liberalism lol
Which is wild because they updated the schedule to “China is reaching their 2030 carbon reduction goals in July 2024” earlier this month.
