Viral Fake Footage Of "Chinese" Atrocities Shows The Power Of Narrative Spin by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-08-08 at 23:42:17 )

Viral Fake Footage Of "Chinese" Atrocities Shows The Power Of Narrative Spin by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

The odious right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong recently posted a video of a man being brutalized by an unseen tormenter which he captioned "Chinese communism", adding "I do not know who needs to hear this but this is what real oppression looks like, not cops in Portland pepper spraying rioters for throwing molotovs at them."

Chinese communism.-Ian Miles Cheong August 6, 2020

There is nothing in the video footage that shows that this is happening in China, nor that the person performing the abuse is a government authority figure. But many people credulously shared the video around, because anti-China sentiment has exploded over the last two years with the help of careful narrative management by the western political-media class.

"73 percent of United States of Americans hold an unfavorable view of China, up from 47 percent just two years ago"

Propaganda works-Louis August 3, 2020

This video footage re-emerges periodically, like last year when it was shared by virulent China critic Arslan Hidayat, who claimed the footage showed the Chinese governments persecution of a Uyghur Muslim.

"DISCLAIMER: Disturbing Video. Chinese policy when interrogating #Uyghur #Muslims is Beat and Tase first then interview the suspect. #SaveUyghur #CloseTheCamps," reads Hidayats caption.

Except it is not from China, and the man being tormented is not a Uyghur Muslim.

Arslan spreading fake #Uyghur videos again. He forgot to remove the FB ID from top left corner.

This is not China!-Carl Zha October 19, 2019

It turns out it is very easy to get people to believe they are viewing irrefutable evidence of Chinese abuses. All you have to do is show them video footage of one thing and tell them it is something else, and as long as they are already predisposed toward believing anti-China narratives, they will believe you.

Over the last few weeks I have seen three different verifiably fake videos depicting "Chinese" abuses which people have been frantically spamming around eager to show evidence of Beijings malfeasance, just in my own personal meanderings through social media.

Like this one:

HERE IS A SECOND GENOCIDE VIDEO:

DAY 4 of my silent hunger strike protesting CCP genocide against Uigur Muslims in China

Brits, we need 100K signs on petition in my tweet below to secure a Magnitsky debate in Parliament. Sign & RT

THIS IS NOT A DRILL-Maajid July 18, 2020

After this wildly viral video surfaced, my Twitter mentions were saturated with brainwashed Chinagaters tagging me insisting that I retract my position of rigorous skepticism toward western narratives about what is happening in Xinjiang. They were certain they finally had me. There it is, video evidence as plain as day. Who could deny such a thing?

Only problem? That is not Xinjiang, and those are not Uyghur Muslims.

And more fakenews about the Uyghurs made by the West.
Never trust the West!

The video is from 2017:
Crackdown on a pyramid scheme in Bijie, Guizhou, China (2000kms away from Xinjiang)
Link: Enrique-Russia-China state-affiliated July 22, 2020

My favorite was this one shared by the account "Uyghur Genocide" on Twitter, captioned "#China has been keeping a world record in techniques to torture prisoners & detainees, such as those 5+ million #Uyghur adults and children currently being held in Chinas #ConcentrationCamps, prisons & slave-labor factories. This is one:"

#China has been keeping a world record in techniques to torture prisoners & detainees, such as those 5+ million #Uyghur adults and children currently being held in Chinas #ConcentrationCamps, prisons & slave-labor factories. This is one:#America #Canada #Australia #GerogeFloyd-Uyghur Genocide June 15, 2020

Except in reality it is not one. That is not China, and that is not a Uyghur Muslim. It is a BDSM fetish video from Taiwan, those are consenting adults at a private location, and the allegation has long been discredited.

Obviously none of this in and of itself proves that Uyghur Muslims are not being mistreated in Xinjiang. What it proves is that there is a lot of disinfo about what is happening in Xinjiang, and that there is a very large market of herd-minded dupes who are eager to swallow that disinfo with zero critical gag reflex.

Western power structures have a very extensive and extremely well-documented history of lying about just this sort of thing, so there is no excuse for credulously believing what you are told about any United States-targeted government absent mountains of hard proof.

Refusing to believe western narratives put out against United States-targeted governments does not mean you automatically believe the opposite of those narratives or believe any Chinese narratives, it just means you remain agnostic until presented with proof that rises to the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world.

There is a lot of geostrategic ambition riding on Xinjiang, since it plays a pivotal role in Chinas Belt and Road Initiative which will upset unipolar United States planetary dominance unless thwarted. Which of course means the west has a vested interest in disrupting Chinas goals in that region, since United States hegemony depends on keeping other nations down. Propaganda is being used to facilitate that agenda.

Ultimately this is all a part of the slow-motion third world war between the United States-centralized power alliance and nations like China which have refused to be absorbed into that alliance. This slow-motion third world war is largely facilitated by dominance of international mainstream narratives about unabsorbed nations.

I Do Not Always Believe Central Intelligence Agency Narratives. But When I Do, I Believe Them About China.

"China is such a curious anomaly in the narrative matrix. Many who are normally skeptical of claims by western governments immediately swallow anything said about China."-Caitlin Johnstone July 22, 2020

The above videos are a good illustration of the power of narrative.

People believe they are seeing undeniable video footage of an atrocity being perpetrated by a specific government, solely because the bit of text over the video told them that is what they are seeing. They literally see what they are told to see. The narrative overrides the actual raw data that they are taking in with their own eyes.

The only sane response to a situation that is swamped with propaganda and disinformation is to hold tight to skepticism and agnosticism until presented with hard proof. Get comfortable with not knowing, and do not forget that the power structures presenting you with these narratives have lied to you in the past.

Stay skeptical. Stay critical. Demand hard, verifiable proof about any claim about any United States-targeted nation, and if it is not given to you, do not swallow it. This is how you keep your head clear of the propaganda.

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