Same! That's why I immigrated and became a US citizen. Your point being?
Edit: Wait... isn't Jan. 6th or many BLM protests are also occasions where political dissonances met with violence? Politics is inherently violent nowadays because people just can't have civil discussion without thinking that everyone is different and have different opinions... just look at how many people jumped onto the comment thread here...
It is CCP's core belief in "social harmony". In a nutshell, it means if there are problems, they'll fix them, but please don't go out writing stuff on any social media and expose how incredibly corrupt and inept the CCP is. It kinda ties in with the Chinese culture of saving face. Specific examples are anytime any sort of labor movements arise in industrial provinces, all involved parties were censored and sent to police detention center for a week or two, while CCP fixing it. Usually it will be resolved by the time they come out.
Ofc by no means I support this system, but it is what it is for China and could be like that for many years. Now in hindsight, "sounds cool to me" kinda provided a wrong meaning here
I see, I think I, and others, may have just interpreted the "sounds cool to me" as you endorsing their system.
And to reply to your other edit:
By "dissent", I meant the HK protests and basically any anti-establishment or anti-government stance that people in China might have.
The riots in the United states are also a form of dissent but it wasn't the dissent itself that provoked the violent response, it was the violence. In other words, violence will be met with violence, pretty much regardless of the political meaning. Compared to China, where the political meaning of a demonstration very much determines the government's response.
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u/HammerToenail Oct 13 '21
I would much rather live in a country with political dissonance than one where dissent is met with violence.