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What a foolish thing to say. Maybe oppression only feels like freedom to you because you're not the one bearing the brunt of it.

There's always someone admiring the boot when they're not the one being crushed under it.

www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opi

Raising kids in China was a plus in other ways — such as the heavy censorship, which results in a kid-friendly internet, and national limits on how many hours young people can spend playing online video games. Ironically, the tight control of the Communist Party surveillance state results in its own kind of freedom: With crime and personal safety concerns virtually eliminated, our daughters were riding the subway unsupervised in a city of around 26 million people from the age of 11. A constant but benign (and mostly unarmed) police presence kept order; streets and the green spaces around every corner were kept immaculate, and the sense of civic pride was palpable.

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@sarahemclaugh but perhaps it's a rare english documentation about why many people are totally fine with living in China.