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It actually makes me slightly doubt whether it's real or faked. I mean, it's not that hard to get 2 fake police outfits and a room and put together a fancy chair. And they do pan away pretty suddenly from the police officers. And why even show the police officers, like hey check out these two totally real cops? Why are they even recording in the first place?
I'm not saying it's actually fake, but for me enough things don't quite add up that I personally chose to go with "this doesn't affect my opinions because I have no clue if it's true or not" on this one. It's slightly worrisome that outside of HN (I've seen this on Reddit and in other tweets) I have not seen doubt expressed in any way. I think it's generally good to doubt things and we may be in big trouble if the global trend is to believe everything you see.
Public displays of criminals, trials and punishments are not uncommon in China, and serve as a "legal education" for the public.
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I’ve always (and that’s not ranting. I really have) wondered if it was on purpose.
Of course it's on purpose. No one would watch a police procedural drama where the police always lost, were inept, or only won their cases due to corruption or malfeasance, or where the criminals were never caught and cases never resolved. Showing the heroes defeating the villains isn't propaganda, it's just good storytelling.
But I’d agree they are not procedural shows.
And TBH, on my point of view, manichean stories are not that good storytelling. On the contrary (but there’s room for everyone taste)
Fictional TV shows are hardly comparable to video in the OP.
It worked against apartheid in South Africa. But that was pretty easy. Avoiding Chinese stuff is much harder.
But yes, it'd be very hard to avoid buying from China.
So what's possible? Political action?
That seems unlikely too. It'd be hard even as a country to boycott China. The US economy would collapse if it tried, I bet.
It's easy to believe something like this happened in real life and got video taped. Certainly more unbelievable things have been caught on film. But it's also easy to believe it's a hoax, and it'd be an easy hoax to pull off.
Except that we do have leaks like the China cables which are generally viewed a as authentic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Cables IMO the rest of the wield needs to realize that this is nazi germany levels of crazy that are starting up again, and realize that Bernie ww3 breaks out.