Comment on Jet Fuel

• kureta@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was banned from /r/latestagecapitalism for not loving China. Anytime I tried to explain why I do not unconditionally love everything about China, they said “but USA?” Dude, I don’t care about USA. It’s thousands of kilometers away from where I live. Everything I said was interpreted as defending USA. I say “China does this” they hear “USA doesn’t do that”. There are other countries in the world, you know, not everything is about USA. End of rant :)

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• bloubz@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Where did I defend the CCP or communism?

  (I do fully support communism and have critical support for China, but that’s not the question here)

  What evidence would change your mind about […]

  Show me evidence that the Uyghur are being persecuted

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  • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Where did I defend the CCP or communism?

    You’re a Lemmygrad user, they’re going to assume that’s your intent by default

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    • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The communism preference, yes. As for the CCP: They literally denied Uyghur persecution. Not even genocide, which is a claim that, due to its severity, is always going to be hard to prove, and thus debatable, I get that.

      But even just the fact that the ethnic-religious group of Uyghurs are being persecuted on a large scale, had to be denied. That’s pretty extreme.

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  • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for answering.

    I am not sure where to start, but let’s take the easy way: At the moment of writing, the wikipedia page “Persecution of Uyghurs in China” has 585 references.

    They’re probably all written by seemingly independent institutions, journalists and scientists who somehow have a McCarthyist-like fear of communism that they’d risk their credibility just to add a bit of damage to communist China’s moral standing?

    Or are they all factually incorrect through some other mechanism?

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