“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.

  • 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.