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        • volkvulture [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          US does need to focus on its own problems, I agree

          which means we should probably stop trying to make a boogieman out of PRC offering development to historically underdeveloped areas

            • volkvulture [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              I don't think it's true either way, because US intelligence also claimed just the other day that no genocide is occurring in PRC

              https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/

              But again, all of this is assuming that knee-jerk subconscious reactions & bone-deep Sinophobia aren't the real underpinnings to most of this media barrage in the West

              The semantically & factually correct statement would read, "Black America on a normal day faces far worse discrimination & systemic violence than any Uyghur in Xinjiang"

                • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  I would rather make concise true statements than to clumsily expand & corrupt the commonly accepted meaning of these words and equate the two situations... PRC & USA's social & economic situations & history are not to be equated

                  I don't need to disarm your talking point, I am just pointing out how cynically it's constructed. If you are at all trying to say that PRC's development & outreach in Xinjiang is comparable to how police treat Black Americans in the US, then it's not a true or semantically correct statement

                  There is no challenge. The truth doesn't really need our opinions or our imprecise syntactic constructions