Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests

Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by Joakal on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:08PM (#20763322)

There's none. That's why people rely on elections and news to hear about events even if they are not favourable to the government. Better informed people can then keep the bastards honest.

When you don't have either, what can you do about it?

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by markus_zhang on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:21PM (#20763413)

We do have both. The election doesn't work the same way as in other countries, but I'd be lying if I say there is none. For the news, you can find quite a lot of news that are not favorable to the government on weibo/wechat if you read Chinese.

I don't fully agree with censorship (they do serve some good I must say that), but it's not black and white. I'm also very pessimistic about "better-informed" people. Receiving news from different sources doesn't make you just. You can't receive A and B and just average them.

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by shkkmo on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:26PM (#20763784)

> I'm also very pessimistic about "better-informed" people. Receiving news from different sources doesn't make you just. You can't receive A and B and just average them.

... you don't average them. You use critical thinking to evaluate the information with regards to its sources, their agendas and integrate those sources. When there are contradictions you try to understand why.

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