China’s Censors Ban Winnie the Pooh and the Letter ‘N’ After Xi’s Power Grab

Re:China’s Censors Ban Winnie the Pooh and the Letter ‘N’ Af... by afterburner on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:41AM (#16493506)

President acts like a corrupt asshat, almost immediately comes under investigation, there have been 23 indictments so far.

The alternative to democracy is not letting people have a say in government, and allowing rulers to rule for long periods until they pass down power to favoured successors or are violently overthrown. Both of those things are absolutely terrible for the health and safety of a society.

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Re:China’s Censors Ban Winnie the Pooh and the Letter ‘N’ Af... by landryraccoon on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:52AM (#16493629)

You don’t have to convince me. But I think it’s a bad sign if defenders of democracy can only get defensive when they have to face mistakes.

Is it really that hard to say we dropped the ball here, badly, and we need to do better, rather than immediately going to whataboutism about China? Yes, they have problems. That in no way contradicts the fact that we need to do better.

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Re:China’s Censors Ban Winnie the Pooh and the Letter ‘N’ Af... by afterburner on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:59PM (#16496778)

I feel like you have it backwards. The intent of my comment was to say democracy hasn't dropped the ball. Trump is massively and obviously corrupt, so he was massively and obviously investigated. Where's the whataboutism? If anything I was responding to reverse-whataboutism (self-deprecation from people in democracies when reading about 'N' being censored in China).

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