WertformProphetin [she/her]

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Any defender of settler colonialism in the new world or Australia could say the same thing, and you would be the first to point out why it’s bad.

Like it or not, Sinicisation and the destruction of mosques are colonialism and cultural genocide. The massive birth rate drop is also overwhelmingly likely to be genocidal. Even if every report about sterilisation is false, forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children than they were before is a genocidal policy: they want less Uighur children to exist.

Anyone who cares about the self-determination of indigenous peoples would naturally care about this too. China doesn’t become ontologically evil because they do some bad stuff. No socialist project should be above critique. China is not our football team.

Any defender of settler colonialism in the new world or Australia could say the same thing, and you would be the first to point out why it’s bad.

Like it or not, Sinicisation and the destruction of mosques are colonialism and cultural genocide. The massive birth rate drop is also overwhelmingly likely to be genocidal. Even if every report about sterilisation is false, forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children than they were before is a genocidal policy: they want less Uighur children to exist.

Anyone who cares about the self-determination of indigenous peoples would naturally care about this too. China doesn’t become ontologically evil because they do some bad stuff. No socialist project should be above critique. China is not our football team.

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“China doing genocide is bad”

“So you’re saying the west doing genocide is good?”

Mfs when a whole other sentence.

Since the collapse of the CCCP, western politicians have far less of a pressure to actually be competent.

Ofc that’s starting to change with the rise of China and the alternative polarity they’re trying to build, which reveals how pathetic things have really gotten.

And even when they don’t do this, once elected, their pathological need to “move to the centre” and be non partisan means you end up with Republican policies anyway!

Truly 4D chess.

That’s… that’s always been the point, yes. I mean the word itself means love of wisdom, which is quite literally thinking well.

All specialised disciplines of inquiry are downstream of and emerge out of philosophy, and any self-reflexive internal dialogue within these disciplines is inherently philosophical.

Most languages don’t make the hard difference between Science and Philosophy like we do in English, and trying to sustain the difference in any absolute sense is basically impossible.

Philosophy is just radically open thought: the willingness to investigate seriously and update one’s views, and, as best as possible, to keep one’s ego out of what one finds.

No one likes effective altruistists, least of all most academic philosophers. They’re a punchline.

Not that this in any way undermines my point. It’s very anti intellectual to point at one shit philosophical movement and wash one’s hands of the responsibility of thinking.

It do be like that sometimes. What a lot of people don’t realise is that everyone has a metaphysics, the question is have you interrogated it, thought it through etc.

As always, the alternative to philosophy is not no philosophy, but instead really bad philosophy.

I feel the same way about theology and religion: whether people like it or not, the religious impulse is a cultural universal. Do we utilise it for good, or surrender the territory without a fight to religious conservatives?

I love the based tiny Swedish lady

Maybe they should try an exploding mcchicken next.