I haven't seen too many Great Takes on Xinjiang on reddit or pretty much anywhere esle for a while. News seems to be done with it too. Amazing how that happened as soon as U.S. focus shifted to Taiwan.

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Has anyone tried using the line that invoking the memory of the holocaust to spread propaganda about a fake genocide, all to promote the interests of American capitalists, is extremely antisemitic?

    Edit: It probably sounds too tankie and internationalist, but you could also say "...all to promote the same capitalist class interests that perpetrated the holocaust..."

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      invoking the memory of the holocaust to spread propaganda about a fake genocide, all to promote the interests of American capitalists, is extremely antisemitic

      They don't care, they've been doing this constantly for a long time. Look up "double genocide theory", it's a favorite of eastern European ultranationalists. Jewish groups have criticized it as a form of Holocaust denial, liberals don't care.

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I'm trying to improve my day, so I won't be looking up double genocide theory. I assume it's some insane shit about how destroying antisemites was actually bad because it was done earnestly instead of symbolically.

        • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Basically, it's (copied from Wikipedia) "the idea that two genocides of equal severity occurred in Eastern Europe, that of the Holocaust against Jews perpetrated by the Nazis and a second genocide that the Soviet Union committed against the local population".

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        True. I'm thinking of discourse where you see the phrase class enemies enclosed in scarce quotes like it's not a real thing.

        Maybe the communist rhetoric can be toned down, but not compromised, by just saying it's antisemitic to invoke the memory of the holocaust to create new Cold War propaganda. Eastern Europe is littered with mass graves and the ruins of holocaust infrastructure, there's nothing like this in Xinjiang.

        Yes, I know this is pointless.