"My opposition to US empire does not lead me to deny Iraq is hiding WMDs"
So don't listen to the state department when it comes to jfk and 9/11 but listen to them when it comes to China and Syria. Got it.
I know I'm preaching to to the choir here mostly, but if anyone is on the fence: understand that while coming from the right place in practice this is just not how it works.
If you are in the west you have a moral obligation to focus on the actions of your own government above all others. Even if you take as a given that the Uighur Genocide is real (just for the sake of argument) the United States has no realistic amount of soft or hard power it can apply and spreading the word and promoting it on social media, in practice, can ONLY have the impact of escalating tensions with China and mudding the waters of our own heinous transgressions.
If you are serious about anti imperialism and actually give a shit about human rights and the lives of muslims then shut the fuck up about the Uighurs and direct all your energy towards talking about Yemen and Palestine, or the grotesqueness going on at the border for that matter. If you're opposing the actions of a foreign empire at the benefit of the one you currently live in then that's not anti-imperialist. Its the other thing. What do you call it? Oh yeah.... IMPERIALIST.
Hot take you can talk about both. I've heard (don't ask me for a source, I forgot where it was from) China softened its policies on Uyghurs somewhat after the flurry of western media attention.
I agree with you that it's impossible for the west to take the moral high ground but that doesn't mean topics should become taboo, no country is perfect. Obviously we should be critical of the intentions behind pushing this narrative and condemn its use as an excuse for our hawkish stance towards China. But that doesnt mean anybody that may be critical of whats happening in Xinjiang should have to self censor
:shrug-outta-hecks: its not even the main point i was trying to make, you can take it how you want
Check my other comment for the link
I know it's not what he meant, but that "the greatest weapon anti-imperialists have is the truth" have the same energy as "literacy is the first weapon of Communists."
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