• Death_to_cumskins@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Westerners acting like they give a shit about the Uyghurs while they spent the last 20+ years bombing the ME and supporting a genocide against the Palestinians is just the tip of their hypocrisy.

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      16 days ago

      I’m not American, but I am very much a Westerner.

      I can protest my government’s shitty politics. I can vote in politicians that amplify the message. I can donate to politicians in other jurisdictions than mine that have good politics. MPs and MEPs that represent me and people who think like me have taken brave stances, have thrown wrenches, have done what they could. One day, just like we stopped South African Apartheid, we WILL stop Israeli Apartheid, and you can shove your cynicism up yours.

      Are Chinese citizens allowed to do ANY of that?

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        16 days ago

        You know this guy is gonna say they are allowed to, and choose not to because they love their government sooo much. Kind of like how the people of Germany loved Hitler so much that 99.3% of them voted for him in his last election.

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            16 days ago

            I would be really interested in seeing this research you are talking about and anything to corroborate your personal anecdote.

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                16 days ago

                You’re making a lot of assumptions about me, all I asked for is evidence to back your claims. I don’t know shit about China. Your story just reads to me like a “and then everybody clapped” kind of situation where we write off the chinese as racist and unwilling to fight their oppressors because of how racist they are, and terminate all further thought because we read a compelling story about some guy that did a college report one time and was approached by five mainland chinese that just happened to all be in the same class with him and have all this secret knowledge that nobody is allowed to talk about even though its true and everybody knows it’s happening and everybody agrees with it.

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          16 days ago

          You do understand that daddy sam being evil empire doesn’t excuse chinaman from being an oppressive regime?

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            16 days ago

            You understand that your bully acting like they care about how another bully treats their victims might be… perturbing though right?

            Like obviously neither bully is justified. But the hypocrisy of it all might feel like rubbing salt in the wound.

            Even more so when that wound is actually your dead friends and family… from all the bombs…

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              16 days ago

              US regime is special in that way they are like the good liberal, they got the money and the guilt.

              But at national level it work: I do genocide but I also criticize others for doing genocide