I think we should try to be more careful, not to automatically assume that everyone who is asking questions here about China/Ukraine etc. is always arguing in bad faith. I’ve seen multiple people who were genuinely trying to ask something here and the only response they got was mockery.
I do understand that a lot of times people who come here are trying to troll or just be annoying, but we still should try to engage in them in good faith as long as there is no reason not to do so. Not everyone who isn’t from Lemmygrad is someone hostile to our ideology, and we should try to be kinder to them.
It’s a very common American attitude (one that has increasingly spread to other countries as well unfortunately.)
US has sports team politics, sports team media, even sports team soft drink (or “pop” as they call it.)
So “their team” in the media is the unbiased “true” account, and the “other team” is the wrong one. You either watch CNN or Fox News. So when they see someone share an article that disagrees with their “team” they conclude it is wrong, because the “other team” of media is always wrong.
People in the west aren’t taught media literacy at all, and I imagine it is even worse in the US than over here. Every media source claims to be the one “true, correct unbiased” source and people basically just pick one based on vibes, they don’t cross reference them or see if there is another angle to things, or something they aren’t being told. They assume their media is the correct one telling them the correct, unbiased truth. So media that contradicts that is automatically wrong and not worthy of consideration.
Good analysis. This is exactly what it feels like. I’ve noticed a similar thing in other realms, too.