• NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip
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    24 minutes ago

    Your logic is shit.

    Everyone is agreeing with your bashing of the US, which is fine, I agree with that part.

    But just because the United States is creating/ allowing internment camps and death camps doesn’t mean it’s okay for the Chinese to do it to the Uygurs. Just because the US is stupidly throwing our military weight around doesn’t make it okay for China to do it, especially not to one of the highest rated democracies in the world.

    Is your premise that suppression of minorities and military adventurism is par for the course so there’s no use criticizing it?

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      1 hour ago

      But just because the United States is creating/ allowing internment camps and death camps doesn’t mean it’s okay for the Chinese to do it to the Uygurs

      China is building schools and factors in Xinjiang, extending their massive rail network into the country, developing new high density urban centers, and - as a consequence - importing a great deal of the neighboring territory language, culture, and economic practices.

      The US is defunding education across the Southwest, gutting low-cost public transit, criminalizing the development of property in migrant neighborhoods, and conducting mass arrests of legal residents based on the social media posts of grifters and fanatics.

      How are these two policies equivalent?

      Is your premise that suppression of minorities and military adventurism is par for the course so there’s no use criticizing it?

      On what planet is policing your own sovereign territory against domestic insurgency “military adventurism”?

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        56 minutes ago

        How are these two policies equivalent?

        I’m arguing against the premise of making the argument based on equating the two countries. The circumstances/ policies don’t have to be different or the same to evaluate them.

        Also, your assertion of what the Chinese government is doing in Xinjiang might well be true, but what people/ the West take issue with is the rounding up of dissidents, sending them to reeducation camps, and forcibly sterilizing some of them.

        On what planet is policing your own sovereign >territory against domestic insurgency “military >adventurism”?

        As far as the Chinese government goes, this part refers to taking Taiwan by force. Literally only the Chinese government would refer to Taiwan as their ‘sovereign territory’.