hope usaid can still fund bbc in future otherwise we'll not see more exciting pornography stories like this

this reminds me similar stories in the Epoch Time before, it also stopped making new pornography stories about cpc any more since they had the finance issue, but in the same time there's bdsm pornography abt uyghurs

US AID wasn't funding BBC News but BBC Media Action. You may or may not agree with this, but please get your facts straight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Media_Action

what, you mean bbc write these without imperial funds? like the economist does?

ok, keep reading then

You aren't coming off very well here.

You are coming off exactly well here

He is paid by the chinese equivalent hiSAIDxiSAID . its with the russians the only voice left in town after trumps surrender .

thank you for not defending usaid with "it's only for aids about global health, disaster relief, socioeconomic development" like others...

A journalism article about the victims of sex slavery is absolutely not pornography.

Frankly, what a disgusting thing to think much less say.

"journalism"

that's how the epoch times call itself

btw, this is one of photos i taken in Dandong, https://imgur.com/a/LdpsWWJ, try search the city in google map, there're many korean restaurants and workers in that city, and i talked with some of them there

and some people i know are regulars of the korean restaurant in shanghai(the same restaurant in the article)

and my conclusion is that there's 90% bullshit in bbc's "journalism"

you guys are not capable to recognize propaganda

> We found out that the girls are all from elite North Korean families. The one that served us shared politely that she has worked at this restaurant for one and the half years and all of them are University graduates who consider this their duty and only opportunity to work and serve their country by sharing their culture and food.

I imagine it is worse for the people who aren't children of elite families, nor able to learn Mandarin to get a chance at spending a few years as a restaurant slave.

There is a weird phenomenon I saw on some parts of Lemmy where people decide that, "because America is bad, therefore all its adversaries are good," so they'll be online praising every action from North Korea.

Unfortunately, this is an extremely common way of thinking. It's one of the reasons flinging dirt in politics is so effective I think.

I wonder if there is any connection with this way of thinking and the many David vs Goliath style stories we get as a kid. Maybe we need more stories for children where every character is bad, or every character is good.

There can still be conflict to provide an interesting story between two good parties, or between two bad parties.

I liked Princess Mononoke a lot as a kid because of the ambiguity in most of the characters. No one was truly evil, or truly good in their actions.

I definitely noticed it was different than most media at the time because of that.

I read their comment and immediately thought of the same movie. That story did moral shades of gray very well. I do wish there was more content like that.

I've conceptualized this in the following way: be most skeptical of narratives that are strongly aligned with the mainstream narrative (more room for ignorance or malice; see Harvey Weinstein), and then most skeptical of narratives that are strongly contrary to the mainstream narrative. Binary categories of good and bad, us and them, right and wrong are an easy trap. To counter this, seek out many narratives (which are not made equal) and consolidate. To truly understand a perspective is the most we can expect out of someone, as they may not agree.

Correct, do you want your child to be starving, cold, and without electricity or do you want them to at least be a restaurant slave?

I’m sure the girls can’t escape or their families will be killed.

That's what I mean, if even the people with means are opting for restaurant slavery for themselves or their children, the rest of the country is obviously in dire condition. People with means within the country are living lives they consider worse than restaurant slavery. People without means must be suffering yet worse conditions than whatever that is.

And so I find it astonishing that people online are willfully deluding themselves into praising this country.

it's fake news. she is employee , boss pay money 4000up RMB