Comment on The Fake Xinjiang Allegations Caused me to Lose my Job & Friends
holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
I had a kind of sh*try experience when I volunteered to help homeless people.
A couple of old folks I worked with were libs u know upset about Russia and trying to boycott and that...
Anyways I suggested maybe a lot of homelessness brings down wages... (trying to apply/misappropriate Marx). They were mean to me but there was a homeless guy there I forgot about who said most of them don't even want to work anyways.
Then you know talking to those libs about China too is a lost cause to a large degree.
I talked to other volutunteers about what I'm reading and learning about China and I think they were OK with it.
There was a volunteer with a blue lives matter flag but I didn't talk to him much.
To a large degree petty politics shouldn't interfere with most of your volunteer work if it just entails making sure people are housed and/or fed and entertained.
I'm sorry people are being used to be clowns like this.
Weyland@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
It shouldn't interfere with it. But seeing as in my case I need to actively interact with these people and do some talking: the topic of China sometimes comes up whenever I need to grasp for straws on what to talk about. That and my phone is in Chinese and me now and then sending a voice message to my friends back in China makes it so that the topic of China is unavoidable... I'm not willing to just turn off my phone for the hours I'm there, especially when some of these elders are not 100% there mentally.
Luckily, I don't live in the United States (anymore, used to be a citizen). But being from the Netherlands there is this culture of becoming a pariah just by merely a square peg in a round hole.
holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
I can't even get my family to ditch the anti-russia anti-china hysteria.
I can spread things I've learned and read but MSM and some conditioning still has a big hold on many people's minds which is tough to break.