Remember the outrage when stuff like that happens in China?

[fibojoly@sh.itjust.works]

Remember the outrage when stuff like that happens in China?
Ever since living there a few years back, I keep saying how your two countries are so fucking similar, and it getting truer every day.

[y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I lived there 10 years ago and it felt entirely different at the time. Chinese people were afraid to discuss certain topics in public, which was not the case in the USA at that time, but yes, times have changed and it is becoming increasingly similar in the US.

[sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de]

Chinese people were afraid to discuss certain topics in public, which was not the case in the USA at that time,

Try talking about unionizing at work and see how people react. Americans are terrified of discussing critical issues in places where it matters the most.

Companies having the ability to destroy your life for having the wrong opinion is just as bad as a state doing it.

[thomascrappersghost@feddit.uk]

In the fifties talking about communism was a big bad thing according to Bill Bryson. People talk like the western world in general, and specifically USAmerica is this moral bastion.

[brucethemoose@lemmy.world]

At least the US looks down on historical McCarthyism. Generally.