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The people selling this false narrative are white supremacists, not the Tibetan or Uyghur people.
Taiwan is pretty much if the US confederates lost the civil war, then escaped to Cuba, killed all the people there, and set up a state. Read about what mass killings the Kuomintang did to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan when they escaped there.
I didn't make my point clear. I don't have any strong opinions on these matters I brought up, outside "genocide is bad" and other basic ethics. I'm admitting I don't know much about them, not due to apathy but due to.... just information fucking overload. It's absurd to equate me with white supremacists just because I can't keep up with everything going on in the world to exacting detail.
I apologize for being too combative... it just gets exhausting for us to debunk the same points over and over again, especially since the US has a near total monopoly on anglophone media sources.
We should oppose actual genocide, like the one Israel is carrying out on the Palestinian people with US help, not fake ones like the "white genocide" or "uyghur genocide" which are employed against perceived enemies of the white/western world.
Just want to say thank you for understanding :) I absolutely agree about the genocide in Gaza and any invented "white genocide." But with something like Xinjiang, I don't think I can make a call about it, you know? I appreciate your understanding that it's not as clear-cut to everyone about what's going on in the world. It doesn't necessarily make me agree or disagree with you, but it absolutely makes want more to be an ally of yours.
No problem, thx!
I def recommend reading about the US's many campaigns historically to accuse their enemies of doing the thing they themselves are guilty of. A few good ones off the top of my head are Paul Williams - Operation Gladio and William Blum - Killing Hope
I will, got some theory on my reading list as well :)
There is no genocide in Xinjiang nor, as the accusation used to go, in Tibet. Frivolously accusing an enemy of the west that it's committing genocide, the crime of crimes, when those accusations mainly feed into narratives used to try to balkanize that enemy of the west does present a certain impression. I have no opinion on your character, but I would gently suggest that if you don't have a strong opinion then it doesn't make sense to go around making confident assertions, as you clearly did in the case of Xinjiang (because you surely know the argument being suggested by Cowbee and company is not that the PRC is committing genocide and that such a genocide would be good).
Your statement on Taiwan is perfectly consistent with how you characterize yourself, however we might disagree, because it was expressed as supporting a side in an issue where there is some consensus on what the sides represent, though obviously I and other communists will say that if you want an independent Taiwan, you I guess want a global revolution because in the current world there is no possibility for an independent Taiwan, like there is no possibility for an independent Tibet, because it will either be part of China or it will be controlled by the US.
Not having a strong opinion on the issues of Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Tibet is exactly why you've been fed misinformation your entire life on them. It's very easy to take government propaganda at face value that way.