bruh are people this fucking dumb to fall for this shit?
The Answer is yes. This is America
These Uyghurs who get sent to these factories/vocational schools are literally like farmers who are potentially illiterate, much less fluent in speaking or writing any language outside their own. But yeah it’s totally plausible they smuggled a note in English into this shoe that successfully made its way to a Beltway ghoul. Literally who falls for this
Back when I lived in ACTUALLY EXISTING China, I literally had a conversation with a Uyghur guy, in fucking old-town Kashgar of all places. His main critique about government educational changes was precisely how English language education was pushed further along the pipe so that by the time kids got linguistic access to the outside world, they would be predisposed to distrust outside info.
Unless this guy was some kind of East-Turkestani political operative who could sniff out any old Han-lookin’ tourist as a foreigner, it’s largely inconsistent with contemporary Western alarm bells about the region.
Also, he would have totally fucked up, because, well, I’m not some grizzled western conflict journo, or my travel papers would have been hella denied. I was 1000% a total fuckin’ tourist.
the US is also one of the few countries that voted NO on some UN resolution on fighting Nazism, racism, xenophobia, etc.
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UM, UM ,UM , that’s whataboutism, so now I don’t have to think about this at all. Intellectual checkmate, cummies 😎
This cold war 2 mongering shit actually scares me. What the fuck is wrong with the west? We are dealing with a pandemic, economic collapse and environmental decline now is not the time to be picking fights with a superpower.
It’s such an obvious ploy to distract people from domestic problems, how do people fall for this shit?
It’s a perfect tactic - find a potentially ethically questionable thing China is doing, inflate it into a genocide, and therefore automatically paint anyone who questions it (or the US’s motives) as a genocide denier. Uyghur discourse on the mainstream internet is basically a trap.
It is because they are terrified.
China exists as a shining beacon, saying communism is possible you guys!
In a time like this, hope for after the revolution will not stand.
I was being hyperbolic. But the relevant point is, China “is better than the US for sure”, it doesn’t matter that it isn’t quite paradise, it isn’t hell.
Knowing that could be enough to encourage even ordinary people to join the revolution. The USA works extremely hard to make China seem like just a different type of hell.
The histories of post-collapse USSR, East Germany, Yugoslavia, these are terrifying; but China is an example that, once revolution has happened, long term stability is possible.
The Western world does not care for '“communism”, it is a scare word; but something like a state capitalism, dictatorship of the proletariat, that doesn’t go to war all the time…
It is something “realistic” that people can easily imagine. If everybody knew the realities about China, it would be much more difficult for the bourgeois to retain control.
Especially now that the USA economy is under such extreme stress, and seeing how a pandemic is allowed to just run its course, people have less to lose.
But most still expect that if a revolution comes, they will enter just another nightmare, one that is likely worse.
They’re not terrified because China poses an ideological threat. They’re terrified because it doesn’t. It was very easy to convince Western European governments to line up against the USSR because it posed a serious ideological threat to their ruling classes. But China will do business with anyone regardless of what kind of government you have. They’re not interested in domestic politics in any country beyond getting along and having a productive trade relationship. The US ruling class and their mandarins are used to calling the shots in the “free world” but China gives other countries’ rulers another option for patronage that doesn’t have many strings attached.
The defense establishment is doing it to preserve their jobs. It was easy to fundraise against the USSR because it was big and had nukes. Between the collapse of the USSR and 9/11 they were rudderless, some thinking they could reform the military into some kind of humanitarian force with bombs. Then 9/11 happened and they had another Big Bad in Islamic terrorism but now China is big and good at science and building shit they have a better adversary than some religious nut jobs in a cave somewhere.
Lol this is fake, there aren’t enough hand gestures to make it italian enough.
