“The People’s Republic of China is waging a brutal campaign of repression against the Uyghur people and other minorities with mass incarceration, torture and forced labor,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a news conference Wednesday before the vote. “With these bills, the House is combating this horrific situation and shining a light on Beijing’s abuse.”

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Nevermind the US slave labor codified in our constitution, concentration camps for brown people, including babies and children, and (illegal) assassination of a foreign diplomat.

    • read_freire [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I may be overly optimistic, but I think that 95% of the Enes engagement that isn't just shitting on his terrible takes is astroturfed.

      This ain't 1950, there's interior apathy toward death squads and brutal subjugation of land defenders and other disruptive protests in the imperial core but there's no red scare appetite to generate mccarthyism 2.0. :porky-happy: kinda dug their own grave there with the end/dustbin of history shit, no one here born after 1980 takes red scare shit serious. They can drown out dissent but there's some shit that's so brazen (like this xinjiang nonsense) where you have to actively silence dissent or you can't effectively sell the narrative (like they did with Mao/Stalin).

      Like no (rad)lib's going to accuse you of genocide denial when you point out that the east turkmenistan islamic movement was on the terror list until magically it wasn't, or that there isn't a single non-american puppet regime in the islamic world that is agitating about this. They eat that anti-iraq/afghan-war and idpol shit up and you can paint em into a corner with it.

      On the other hand I've got a radlib friend I met in the streets last summer who randomly spouted off a xinjiang quip to me about a month ago, so maybe I'm just out of touch.

      • SuperDullesBros [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I dunno I got a woke idpol anarchist friend who blindsided me by parroting CIA talking points hook line and sinker talking about “believing the POC survivors”

        • read_freire [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          yeah it depends on the context and whether you're having a dialogue. if that's all the case and it's not heated, then you ask about the nayirah testimony

          worst case you do what folks in the sub did with me a couple years ago and just point out that from the POV of a prole in the imperial core your opinions are all informed through that lens and your actions will have zero real influenceonly ever have an impact on the capacity of anglo hegemony to take advantage of on what's going on there. even a radlib conditioned to cry whataboutism has a hard time swallowing that

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, that suddenly happened to me a couple months back too. An anarchist friend just bold faced defending the IMF and World Bank as humanitarian while saying all Chinese investment was predatory and fascist.