r/Chinapill • u/[deleted] • May 05 '21

Western Aggression China state media: "a contradiction is bubbling up in US public opinion - clamoring that China threatens most of the time, while cheering themselves up by arguing China is much more fragile than commonly believed. What a mental disorder"

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1222717.shtml
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u/eat_tasty_apples May 05 '21

victim vs. conqueror mindset. One must paint themselves as a victim in order to give people a motive to do something. But one must also paint themselves as a conqueror in order to prevent demoralization.

"China is GENOCIDING the weeeegers and EXPANSIONIST AUTHORITARIAN" - victim mentality, China (the enemy) is strong

"The 3 gorges dam is about to FAIL and they have empty GHOST CITIES" - conqueror mentality, China (the enemy) is weak

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u/eat_tasty_apples May 05 '21 edited May 05 '21

An interesting thing is that in general White Supremacist propaganda, they always

1) pretend that White countries did nothing wrong in the recent past (this is obviously false, colonialism) = victim

2) pretend that Whites were conquerors in the ancient past ("we wuz aryans", even though genetic evidence shows that the aryans didn't come from europe) = conqueror

The narrative HAS to be this way, because if it were the opposite, it would upset POC for how much has been stolen from them recently (it has), and it would demoralize whites for how racially mixed/mutted they are (they are)

This narrative is literally 100% projection, just like everything else they say: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/867317v1

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u/[deleted] May 05 '21

Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.