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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opinion/china-education-parenting-culture.html

Maybe, just maybe, you can suggest Americans can learn things from other countries without defending the authoritarian governments oppressing the people who live there. Just an idea!

There is just something so grating about seeing someone who isn't the target of oppression explain how it makes them feel freer. I doubt doing PR for the CCP was the author's intent here, I just wish she understood that it's possible to make her argument without including a defense of one of the most oppressive governments in the world.