• CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The Civil War was imperialism but it was good imperialism. Fascist breakaways are a bit different: the Union taking over the South was infringing on their self-governance, but that's a good thing, Confederates were pure evil. It's like after WWII and Axis powers became occupied, could you technically call that colonialism? Maybe, but they needed to be.

    If Taiwan was blatantly fascistic, genocidal, had slavery, etc. I would support China colonizing them... but they aren't. They're neoliberal (much like China), which is lame, but they're not a Nazi state. Remind me, who was the first in Asia to legalize gay marriage?

    Your comparison is bad faith.

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Wait, so China is Neoliberal and fascist and state capitalist!

      And here I was thinking words had meanings.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      If Taiwan was blatantly fascistic, genocidal, had slavery, etc. I would support China colonizing them... but they aren't.

      Taiwan AKA the Republic of China was founded as a settler colonial military dictatorship

      • CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        And are they a military dictatorship today? Even when they were, they weren't a threat to world peace or humanity like the Confederacy or the Japanese Empire. By that logic do you think the US military should intervene in African military dictatorships?

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The KMT was certainly a threat to Formosans, and to leftists living in the island they'd seized.

          If the Confederacy had survived the war as rump state in Southern Florida and continued to claim to rule the entire US South and in the mid nineties claimed to be a democracy and then finally elected a non-military president in the aughts, would you call the US imperialist for not recognizing the Confederacy?

    • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Okay, that's consistent. Given that the modern incarnation of Taiwan was founded as a fascistic & genocidal settler colony, what was the timepoint at which a decisive end to the Chinese Civil War shifted from acceptable to unacceptable in your eyes?