Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don’t have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I’ve noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.
Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.
Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.
Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.
Africa as a whole, much like India is waiting for the main players to win/lose to pick sides officially or otherwise take each other out and clear the field. Aka its nothing but silence here on most things. As for china’s investments. Its a mixed bag. Its good to get more honest investments than USAid but simultaneously China is making much more than they are giving. It’s a parasitic loan, not a loan of good faith. Not to include the extreme racism of Chinese influencers coming here and making videos of children saying in Mandarin how they are dumb monkeys and need Chinese enslavement.
cripes.
Yeah it’s not good and if anything around here makes it from the village to the news it’s worse than whatever the news is showing and if that news makes it global I can promise you it is much worse than they are showing.
I love to see dirt on china but I wish there was a better source than BBC since it’s not the most credible outlet (right wing aligned).
Do you have any other sources for this?
I was looking for a local video that was posted on Reddit but I deleted my account recently and I believe it was taken down.