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

    Thanks for sharing. That comment was from a while back, but it’s still good to hear your view point, even if you haven’t actually been to Xinjiang.

      • abdul [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I was actually being sincere, but you’re welcome to believe otherwise.

        Edit: it just occurred to me that you probably didn’t bother to read the part of his comment where he says this:

        When I go to Xinjiang I will share my experience there.

          • abdul [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            I would say the former, since the latter admits twice that they haven’t actually been to the places the first guy was at.

              • abdul [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                Not clear on what I said that you feel was a misrepresentation of anything

                      • abdul [none/use name]
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                        4 years ago

                        You’ve demonstrated in several comments here that you aren’t worth my time. For this reason, I’m not reading this comment or any further ones by you today. I can see you care a lot about this, but I gave you several chances and you failed me every time, and I gave up when your idea of misrepresenting the facts was giving more weight to a firsthand account of what’s occurring in Xinjiang over one occurring somewhere else entirely (even if I believe that person is speaking truthfully, which I do). If you want to better understand my point of view, you can reread what I already said, but I don’t see a point in engaging any further for the time being.