Man, you are painting with some insanely broad brushes with stuff like "China is a country that" when it's the CCP that is the problem. Typically people don't engage in things like this because it's a whole other autonomous country with over a billion people so making sweeping statements or generalizations is incredibly dicey territory. There are socio-political, ethical, and economic nuances involved in global politics that make it difficult to find solutions for some of the smartest, most well informed people in the world. I'm fine without GB jumping up on a soap box to start railing against China like so many disingenuous people do on social media and streaming platforms.
A lot of domestic issues people like GB feel more comfortable speaking out about because they either have direct connections, experience, or a bevy of information and much time spent understanding more about the problems occurring in their own country. It's not really comparable to making uninformed or lesser informed armchair opinions about a country many people making those comments about have never even been to.
This, and highlighted for emphasis. I'm no isolationist, I think things like Climate Change and human rights violation cannot start and stop at national borders and are things the entire world must care about, but unfortunately: America has a bevvy of massive problems right now, particularly among the wealthy, ruling class.
We had an attempted coup attempt at our nation's capitol THIS YEAR. 9 months ago, a fascist political party tried to forcefully seize control of, and kill, our country's leaders, and unfortunately around half those leaders support that party. And if you think I'm being hyperbolic, go check out what the representatives of said party actually do, rather than just the pleasant face they present outwardly.
Am I saying this means "you can't criticize China because we have bad-faith actors in our government"? Absolutely not. But I'm much more concerned what President Biden is going to do about:
1) overpolicing of poor neighborhoods/PoC at all wealth levels
2) Republicans' inability and unwillingness to even admit Covid and climate change exist, much less govern like they do.
3) a fascist political party making a power grab as states like Texas and Alabama make it harder and harder for people to vote, and begin to enact laws that will allow elections they don't like to be overturned.
4) our crumbling infrastructure within our own states and cities
5) total lack of any kind of oversight or regulation on our massive businesses driving wealth inequality further and further, and giving more and more power to an annointed few whose ONLY goal is...MORE POWER.
6) Child marriage still being legal, and happening, within our nation's borders.
To make this as clear as possible: I am NOT trying to say "who cares about better representation in popular culture, THERE ARE ATROCITIES BEING COMMITTED OVERSEAS!!" because that is a bullshit argument for bullshit artists, what I am saying is: our backyard needs to be cleaned up, in a way we can and should make real progress toward, before we see to cleaning up someone else's backyard.
Because right now? Even IF we formed a coalition and got some political power toward this goal, the CCP's representatives could, and should, just as easily say: You've done nothing to police your own corporate, entertainment giants, how dare you think you can police ours???
Activision/Blizzard is a nightmare, but at least it's a public one being talked about actively. Remember Ubisoft? Remember "used stacks of profits to shield sexual predators at the executive levels"? Remember how none of that was really done anything about, and now we all play and watch coverage of Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Far Cry 6?
Giant Bomb's views on this shit is known, you can find it easily. You can look back on their coverage of Goobergate when it first began, you can look at their relationship to outfits like Waypoint, their support for videogame unions, I don't NEED them to come out and say "we are against Chinese government's censorship."
People were being rounded up and put into camps in this country just a year ago (miss me with this DEMOCRATS DO IT TOO!!! bullshit. If you have to take all context from your argument to be right, it ain't much of an argument); there was a "Muslim ban" attempted in this country just 4 years ago.
We need to clean up our yard before we start telling other people how to keep theirs. And that's not a proverb or an axiom, that is a REAL, DOABLE plan, it just takes an absolute metric ton of time, effort, and work. People in-power do not give it up willingly.
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