Usually in relation to Uighur camps, the argument is "since you're in America you can't change whether they're concentration camps or education facilities, so you should just concentrate on the concentration camps within your own borders instead."

Like, motherfucker, I can have an opinion on the actions in another country and still work on changing things I can change.

I guess my question is, is this concentrate on what you can change part of some theory or strategy I haven't read or is it just bad and lazy?

In particular for China it's essentially conceding to the people who thinks there are millions of Uighurs being murdered, rather than attempt to engage and show that there is no evidence of that, and just what abouting.

  • abdul [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    This is such a circle jerky train of thought. There is no point in reminding people who don’t like what China is doing about what america is doing because they probably believe america is bad too. All you accomplish by doing this is making yourself feel better about supporting China.