honestly as a german i feel insulted when the same politicians (including merkel) keep repeating and repeating, especially on ww2 memorial day, "such atrocities as in WW2 will never happen again" when the same people expand the trade with china knowing that the products are produced in concentration camps, allow organ tourism knowing the organs are forcefully operated from living people, and knowingly shutup about human rights violations because they dont want to face economic penalties from china.
i feel like the politicians only care about ww2 as it affected their own people. similarly much greater tyrants than hitler, such as stalin and mao, are barely mentioned in history while we learn extensively about hitler. since they are mostly killing their own people, the politicians are happy to do business with them. and if we buy made in china we are taking part of this system possibly unknowingly. these politicians know damn well whats happening there. they just dont want the public to care.
as a small party member nico semmsrott from the party "the party" from the european parliament once said, "the politicians benefit from the boredom and disinterest in politics"
You're right: people are not interested in our reality?
How can we help people be aware of our reality?
What do you think?
well for a while i thought we can give directly expose them to reality by free documentary screening like "human harvest" or "letters from manchuria" but when i handed out flyers, people didnt care about "concentration camps in china". for the manchuria one the producer actually came to the cinema.
the topic is for most people too abstract and too dystopian to be real, and too far away for them to feel affected :/ most people dont care about politics and rather go on with their lifes not caring about concentration camps else where. they only cared about it once they actually saw the documentary, because they were emersed in the story of the documentary and hence affected, but getting them to actually see it in the first place was a pain in the ass. then again idk will they actually change their consumption and stop buying goods from china after seeing it?
How's the lockdown going?