Can we really trust western media ?

The genocide in Gaza has really demolished the narrative about one going on in China. Because we all know what a real genocide looks like now, if the Chinese were doing somethuing similiar they wouldn't be able to hide it.
- I wish this was the case. I just had a coworker bring up the Uyghur "genocide" as evidence about how bad China is last Friday.
  
  I'm travelling and it constantly comes up. The fact that I've been there, spoken to Uyghurs, and they've either laughed or been straight up horrified at the western narrative is apparently not evidence enough to convince most westerners. There have been exceptions, like this sweet but naive couple from Canada who's world view my girlfriend and I were able to completely change over the course of a couple of weeks.
  I think for most they've convinced themselves, with the aid of a huge amount of propaganda in the form of news and TV/movies, that the west are the good guys. The thought that anything else could be the case is simply impossible to contemplate, as it would utterly shatter their world view and morals

usians are the most propagandized people on earth
- I would argue a certain segment of Europeans are even more propagandized than the average USian. At least in the US, for one reason or another (usually political tribalism), a lot of people mistrust their government, and to a lesser extent, their media. People in Europe still have way too much faith in their bourgeois institutions.
  
  It is a weird thing in the US, cause you have people who sorta act like:
  If the democrats are in power (the government is terrible, omg, it's so so terrible, we have to get them out of office)
  If the republicans are in power (omg I love government now, look at how they're sticking it to the libs)
  And to some extent, the reverse of that as well. These days I think more are getting frustrated with the gov in general, but you still have some of those loyalists who act like it's the "wrong side" that is the problem with governance, not the system as a whole.

Why are there so many tankies on Lemmy?
- it was made by communists
  why are there so many liberals here?
- This is Lemmygrad.
- You're on Lemmygrad, a community for communists.
  In the meantime, define "tankies", because you don't seem to know what that word means.
- What does "tankie" mean to you?

Although, there is ample evidence of genocide on both sides. Why does it need to be one team vs the other, vs I don't know, a general support of rights?
- Where is the physical evidence of this genocide? Because I can see dead Palestinian children by the truckloads if I want to.
  
  What is a reputable source for you? Visiting one of the compounds, which wouldn't be possible? Izrale is livestreaming their atrocities, china has media control.
- Is your name Adrian Zenz lol
- Google "atrocity propaganda" and revise your position of there being "ample evidence of genocide on both sides." Palestinian genocide is livestreamed every day. Meanwhile, I have not ever, ever heard of "Uighur genocide" from anyone who is more than three steps removed from the CIA.
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/14839342
  https://lemmy.ml/comment/14840603
  
  Always the same map.
  
  Turkey is in support? Aren't they the ones that started the Uyghur myth in the first place, along with finding the ETIM?
- I thought this was a good video. I’m not sure if it’s a genocide, and I’m sure it’s not on the same scale as Palestine, but I think what’s going on with Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities deserves serious criticism: https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js
  Take this with a grain of salt as I have not done in depth research.
  
  No it is a horrible video. He takes every single western accusation for the truth.
  Stop worshipping BE.
  
  I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video
  
  It seems at the very least to be an attempt at erasing an ethnic culture, comparable in some ways to Native American boarding schools in the history of the U.S. and Canada

I know right? The anti semitism is on the rise, it’s concerning
- @SovietReporter @missandry351 In the sense that arabs are also a semitic people yes
  
  Zionism is deeply antisemitic against jewish peoples too; for Zionists the only valid Jew is the fascist one and thereby carries out one of the axioms of western imperialism - the only truly valid "minority" is the fascist one (see for example, the erasure of communist ukrainians for fascist ones, communist Indonesians for fascist ones, and same for other East Europeans, South Americans etc)
- Yes, and it’s coming from you, because Zionism is antisemitic.
- Western coverage of antisemitism is completely unrelated to actual antisemitic incidents.
- User instance is too on the nose. Anyways, unlimited death on IDF soldiers. Every dead IDF troop is a fresh beer!
- Zionism is the Typhoid Mary of anti-Semitism.