I didn't ask about how you felt about Israel's genocide. I'm assuming, based on what you already said, that you're against it. So am I.
If you had to narrow down your feelings on the Uyghur internment camps to one of three responses, would it be:
- I'm against them
- I'm for them
- It's more complicated than that
And, the same question for the police response in Hong Kong.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 months ago
I’m against both of them. It’s imprisonment, torture and forced assimilation. It should be an easy decision for anyone that is also against what the Nazis did and Israel is doing.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 months ago
Okay, just curious.
I mean, yes, it should be a shockingly easy question to answer and I'm happy that you're against them. I've just gotten in the habit of asking people who display one view that's surprising to me if they hold other surprising views which might not appear initially to be directly related. Most of the time, they do, which is a very interesting result to me.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 months ago
As soon as I smell authoritarianism, it’s a no from me. Even as someone that reads communist and socialist theory. I think people take too much of the past and try to apply it as-is to the world of today. But it doesn’t work. Modern times require modernized ideas, and I sometimes wish people had more imagination.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 months ago
Every government in the world has good and bad in it, because every government is made of people. Different ones have different amounts; it's not like every country's government is the same or has equal good/evil levels. But sometimes people take it to the point of classifying "good ones" and "bad ones" and handwaving away the bad things that the "good ones" are doing. To me, that's not really a safe or sensible way to look at things. It's just not how things work. In my opinion.