Is this opposite day?
I think I agree with this statement, but one thing that’s struck me is chapos who will happily proclaim “there are concentration camps at the border” while also saying “there’s nothing wrong with what’s happening in Xinjiang!”. Possibly comes down to a few things:
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Some people genuinely see them as different enough that one is worse than the other (I don’t really agree, though I’m pretty sure ICE camps are going to be a few notches worse in brutality)
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People are being diseneguous for propaganda purposes (doesn’t really bother me that much tbh)
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these are two different groups of people, and nobody actually believes both of these things at the same time (I’m kinda doubtful)
Anyway, just something I’ve had noodling around for a few weeks…
Yeah there’s no difference between ICE treating people seeking asylum, or just trying to live somewhere better, like literal cattle at the border, during a pandemic, and the program of de-radicalization that’s going on in Xinjiang.
CW sexual assault
A while ago I noticed that the Soviet Soldier raping “our” women trope was leveraged in Germany by precisely the people who were Nazis and the people after them. Who did not in any sense argue as strongly against the murder or sexual violence committed by the Nazis and such. Thus the correct take is to understand is that it is propaganda which is used to dehumanize “slavic” people and is a continuity which shall not be used.
In a similar vein, even if countries which aren’t the western core do things that I’d rather see different it would be wrong to bring those points up or compare them directly in media.
Of course, I would never bring such a discussion outside of this website, lest I aid Western imperialism in any way. As long as we are among comrades though, I don’t think it’s an issue since it’s all meaningless jerking off without any sort of power base to do literally anything about it (regardless of the outcome)
This is the adults in the room giving legal cover for backing out of what is clearly a suicide mission. There’s no way that America survives conflict with China at this point.
Yeah, but the facts have never gotten in the way any other time the US wanted to go to war.
I’m saying that officially stating that they were “mistaken” is gonna be used as political cover for de-escalation. If the state department was still planning on going forward with some kind of conflict/intervention they’d just keep the lies coming.
It’s literally one article and goes agaisnt what the Biden admins stance is we gotta wait and see.
The state dept lawyers still called it “crimes against humanity”, so it’s not like they’re fully backing down. That said, if what China is doing constitutes a crime against humanity, then the US has at least three major government agencies that exist solely for the purpose of committing crimes against humanity.
Damn, Biden said he was going to make some concessions to the left, but I didn’t expect THIS!
Americans have this myth in their head that genocides can be a shadowy and secret operation.
It stems from a myth in the Holocaust Industry, where we pretend that no one knew what was going on in Nazi Germany until the camps were liberated.
and then they sent an angry letter to the CIA telling them to do better
