• TwitterThoughtPolice [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        You: I’m gonna regurgitate the propaganda

        I repeated the official Chinese line and pointed out how it qualifies as genocide according to the UN definition...

        Speaking of contorting yourself to believe propaganda. Guess it helps when you can call the mods to erase anything you disagree with. That's how you know you're not brainwashed by propaganda. Everything you can see proves you right.

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      ‘We’re going to train them out of their culture’ is not an internationally recognized definition of genocide.

      TIL Saudi, Al-Qaeda-aligned Wahhabi fundamentalism, introduced by the Mujahideen, that's trying to eradicate indigenous Muslim religious and cultural practices is Uyghur culture.

    • baguettePants [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      By claiming that deradicalizing people from reactionary Islamic extremism is "training them out of their culture", you accept a racist and Islamophobic narrative, that the Uyghur culture is, in fact, Islamic extremism. So yes, please reflect on it and do better next time.

      • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Acckkschually, Chinese surveillance leads to things like contact tracing during covid pandemic and American surveillance leads only to nudging and targeted ads so yes, I relatively do love the surveillance state with Chinese characteristics

        • JamesConnollysStache [any]
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          4 years ago

          Good thing Covid showed up or all that fancy surveillance would just be collecting dust....right? What a reach! You got to be drinking some serious kool aid if you think that's all a surveillance state leads to. Just think about what the NSA is doing and assume China is on the same level. If you're OK with that then I guess that says a lot...

          • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            It says that there is no perfect society but at least the Chinese citizen benefits from their surveillance program for non-imperialist reasons, because collectivism is good. I even included 'relatively' in there. Fuck off :LIB: