this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2026
221 points (90.2% liked)
Memes
55615 readers
1014 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Part of the ideology of white-supremacy, is that proximity to whiteness means trustworthiness and authenticity, and distance from it means untrustworthiness.
So white supremacists think only the western countries (and their allies like South Korea, Japan, and other US military base countries) data and educational institutions can be trusted, while the numbers coming from any country opposed to them must inherently be a lie.
"Data from authoritarian countries is less reliable"
Uh-oh.
Please tell me, which countries/peninsulae on the graph are authoritarian, and which are not.
Authoritarian (Bad Guys) ((Not white))
Also being white is a weird definition. The Chinese, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese have a very white color of skin. Slavic people too have a white skin. But in both cases, they are not considered white.
Even Russians got kicked out of being white
Russia has always been part European and part Asian. The city of Kazan' is a proof of that.
Regarding point 1, this is relatively true.
Regarding point 2, all of these states are "authoritarian," the difference being which class has authority, and which classes has authority imposed upon them. Cuba, the PRC, and Vietnam are all socialist countries with the working class in charge of the state, while France, Europe, and the US are all imperialist countries/regions where capitalists control the state and impose their authoritarian rule upon the working classes.
Regarding point 3, this could be a possible explanation but requires actual backing.
Regarding point 4, it's important to compare not just systems dogmatically, but against peers, and what came before. Germany, the UK, Austria, etc. are all imperialist countries, and thus have greater access to resources. It matters both how much resources you have, and what you do with them. Socialist countries have more pro-social policy that stretches resources farther.
In total, it certainly is propaganda in that it's trying to convey a specific point for a specific aim, just like your comment can be considered propaganda. You offer some decent ideas of how to improve the data, but you also insert your own biases without backing them up, and run into metaphysical errors regarding how these are compared (such as ignoring levels of development and imperialism).
A bit odd coming from the instance currently trying to fake a Neo-Nazi takeover of an anarchist instance just because Feddit.org and Lemmy.world admins got outed as Zionists.
westerners -- americans in particular -- live in a strange world where reality is treated like propaganda and propaganda is treated as natural human reality; i know this to be true because i also once believed it.
This strange world, in which I replied to a comment refuting this propaganda :O