https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1355113169962692610

    • radicalhomo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      this is like saying "it's very imperialist and racist to criticize the illegality of homosexuality in the middle east"

      ik that's a hyperbolic example, but you can't expect everyone to respect a value/practice that can be reactionary and infringe on human rights. not to blame individual chinese people for being fine with it, and it might not be a big deal, but that doesn't mean we can't call out the practice regardless of the country.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Sure, death penalties are a problem though, outside of crisis and conflict. That is when the productive forces are developed as they are in China. The tradition of execution can also be traced to pre-Socialist movements and practices of parts of what we now call China (and the fucking imperialist Brits who used it at every opportunity). As such it predates Marxist-dialectical understandings and isn't just to be supported for the sake of it being practiced.

      That said, Central Park looks good at this time of the year.