Most radlibs are anti-war, so I use that as my starting point. I'll concede that China is detaining Uighurs, than point out that Turkey, the US, Israel, etc. etc. are also committing genocides and not getting a third of the press coverage. I'll ask them why they think that is. They're rad libs, so they'll come up with something about protecting wealth inequality or covering our allies asses, or maybe even gearing up for conflict with China. That's when I point out that their anti-war values are counter to that. We don't need libs to go "china good" we need libs to go "sanctions on China bad."
Like 10 years ago maybe. Liberal hawkishness really took off after libs realized Obama wasn’t actually anti-war and some republicans have isolationist sentiments, and now you have them regularly engaging in Iraq apologia.
Most radlibs are anti-war, so I use that as my starting point. I'll concede that China is detaining Uighurs, than point out that Turkey, the US, Israel, etc. etc. are also committing genocides and not getting a third of the press coverage. I'll ask them why they think that is. They're rad libs, so they'll come up with something about protecting wealth inequality or covering our allies asses, or maybe even gearing up for conflict with China. That's when I point out that their anti-war values are counter to that. We don't need libs to go "china good" we need libs to go "sanctions on China bad."
Like 10 years ago maybe. Liberal hawkishness really took off after libs realized Obama wasn’t actually anti-war and some republicans have isolationist sentiments, and now you have them regularly engaging in Iraq apologia.