I once got called a tankie by someone two sentences after they advocated for the morality of the US sanctions on Iraq after I informed them of the half a million dead infants statistic and provided sources
They person who called me tankie was going on about systemic oppression in communist countries and listed off loads of gommunizm bad examples (Holodomor, Purges, Great Leap Forward, Tibet) including the Uyghurs. In my response I called it the 'alleged' genocide, which was the line for him lol.
He also listed the Cultural Revolution as an example of systemic (which according to his definition means purely governmental) oppression in communist countries, which... Yeah...
There wasn't much point. I'd have got bogged down pointing out how all his examples either weren't examples of systemic oppression, didn't happen, or both.
It started when some guy said "the communists were the same as the Nazis!"
I asked who the alleged exploitation of Uyghurs and Tibetans benefited, as the concept of Han supremacy doesn't really exist in China, and private enterprise is controlled, and they called me a tankie for not believing that the Uyghurs are being (culturally) genocided.
Edit: I should add that I don't believe the Uyghurs are victims of any type of genocide, but the guy was using cultural genocide as an example of how communists systematically oppress people.
I once got called a tankie by someone two sentences after they advocated for the morality of the US sanctions on Iraq after I informed them of the half a million dead infants statistic and provided sources
They person who called me tankie was going on about systemic oppression in communist countries and listed off loads of gommunizm bad examples (Holodomor, Purges, Great Leap Forward, Tibet) including the Uyghurs. In my response I called it the 'alleged' genocide, which was the line for him lol.
He also listed the Cultural Revolution as an example of systemic (which according to his definition means purely governmental) oppression in communist countries, which... Yeah...
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There wasn't much point. I'd have got bogged down pointing out how all his examples either weren't examples of systemic oppression, didn't happen, or both.
It started when some guy said "the communists were the same as the Nazis!" I asked who the alleged exploitation of Uyghurs and Tibetans benefited, as the concept of Han supremacy doesn't really exist in China, and private enterprise is controlled, and they called me a tankie for not believing that the Uyghurs are being (culturally) genocided.
Edit: I should add that I don't believe the Uyghurs are victims of any type of genocide, but the guy was using cultural genocide as an example of how communists systematically oppress people.