• مهما طال الليل
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    Why is China’s persecution of the Uyghurs used as an excuse for the Democratic Party facilitating a genocide? Two things can be bad at the same time, though with genocide and attempted ethnic cleansing being obviously worse.

    • @EndlessApollo
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      16 hours ago

      If two things can be bad at once, then what’s your issue with people pointing out how China is bad? And why does the US being bad excuse China being bad?

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        Aside from US lying over why Tiktok is being banned. The Chinese never claimed, and certainly never weaponized, any of the values that the US is now walking back on to bury the truth of its complicity in genocide. Free press, freedom of expression, rule of law, human rights, and so on.

    • @[email protected]
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      614 hours ago

      First, it’s the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs, same as Israel and the Palestinians.

      Second, no excuses here. You brought up the Israeli genocide in a thread that had nothing to do with the genocide and did it in a way so as to seemingly say that China is somehow less corrupt and guilty than the US… It’s not. Neither genocide is excusable or justifiable.

      • مهما طال الليل
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        -112 hours ago

        It is absolutely relevant to why Tiktok is being banned.

        Also equating the two is dishonest at best. The images from both tell a totally different story. You are just propagandized.

      • @[email protected]
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        -214 hours ago

        First, it’s the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs

        Then why did the Wikipedia article change its name from Uyghur Genocide to Persecution of Uyghur?

        • @[email protected]
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          213 hours ago

          Genocide is a controversial term.

          Even today, people contest the Armenian genocide, and Ukrainian genocide (holodomir). Even the Holocaust.

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            I think most normal people are quite happy to ignore the opinions of anyone that denies the holocaust.

            Although I wonder how many people realise the scale of it? 6 million Jews gets repeated a lot more than all the other victims. Ask the average person in the street how many died and how many would say it was 6 million in total and forget the rest? The other victims shouldn’t be forgotten about.

          • @[email protected]
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            -213 hours ago

            People contest the Ukrainian genocide because it wasn’t a genocide, it was a famine that affected multiple regions including Ukraine, and didn’t have any ethnical component to it.

            • @[email protected]
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              312 hours ago

              It was Stalin who systematically made the famine worse in Ukraine to break them. I learned about it in High School history class.

              • @[email protected]
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                -18 hours ago

                Wow, you learned it in high school, must be true then lmao. I was taught in high school that the Spanish empire was cool and based, and there were no atrocities in Latin america in my studies.

                The claims of Holodomor being a genocide against Ukrainian are new, mostly post-2000s, and part of nationalist movements in eastern Europe and russophobia/anticommunism.