• Balefirex [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

    Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The OP is horrible too.

    Over 90% of Tibetan people still speak their ancestral language.

    Wanna guess what that number is for indigenous people of Turtle Island?

    spoiler

    It is 8%. EIGHT FUCKING PERCENT. Fuck all of these cracker libs.

    Americans and Canadians love to pretend that just because their genocides were more successful and the victims less numerous less numerous now that this somehow invalidates their struggle. One of the longest enduring struggles against colonialism is still alive today in spite of all efforts to exterminate them. Efforts that are ongoing.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      the victims less numerous

      North Amerika had about 10 million inhabitants before the settlers arrived and half a million natives left once the expansion of the US and Klanada was complete. Libs downplay this by saying that half of the 9.5 million were killed by plagues instead of being directly murdered, which is ignoring pox blankets, but you have to be creative when you want to deny actual genocides that leave behind material evidence.