• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Best would still be if the eu accepted an invite for observation or something. But that would obviously be biased too.

    Not to go off at you specifically, but everything I see this train of thought my brain parses it as "I don't trust it unless it can be corroborated by white people."

    I don't see why France's take on the situation is any more valid than the takes of dozens of Islamic countries who have already come out in support of the Chinese deradicalization program.

    • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Not to go off at you specifically, but everything I see this train of thought my brain parses it as “I don’t trust it unless it can be corroborated by white people.”

      Send in inspectors from Sri Lanka, the Republic of Vanuatu, San Marino, Bhutan, Guyana, Angola and Togo

      I will not explain why I picked the countries I did

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Islamic countries already made peace with israel for money, leaving Palestinians out in the cold.

      Lots of those Islamic countries have loans from China.

      I don't take the french governments take at face value but forgive me if i don't take UAE's or Bahrain's either where "the wrong kind of muslims" are used as literal slaves.

    • Koa_lala [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's because I live in the EU. Not because I like white people so much. The EU is obviously politically relevant to me.

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The fact that China has asked the EU to come look for themselves and the EU has declined to do so really ought to tell you enough

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        But as a European leftist you must be able to think of many times European leaders have lied through their teeth about leftist movements, causes, and ideas?

        Why would it be any different this time?

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            But where does that actually leave us? "All information is unreliable, but the information from people who have directly lied to me in the past is less unreliable"?

            Why is a European neoliberal goon any more reliable than any one else?

            • Koa_lala [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              No. I ended with, I can't know for sure but I don't trust the narrative. That's literally what I said in my first comment.

              But I also don't want to end up as the person that would say 'Wir haben es nicht gewußt'. My family suffered in the holocaust. How could I take these accusations lightly? All due respect.