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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (26 children)

This thread is a testament to the years of china bad slop that white supremacist liberals have been eating.

Major props to all the patient comrades below trying to educate these stubborn klansmen.

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  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Wait, I'm a white supremacist because I don't want China - or anyone else - to manipulate Tibet or persecute Uygurs? I'm a Klansman because I lean to supporting Taiwan's independence?

    Do, like, MLs just hate everyone? Honestly, why are MLs so extremely hostile to people they don't 100% agree with?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    to manipulate Tibet or persecute Uygurs

    The people selling this false narrative are white supremacists, not the Tibetan or Uyghur people.

    I'm a Klansman because I lean to supporting Taiwan's independence?

    Taiwan is pretty much if the US confederates lost the civil war, then escaped to Cuba, killed all the people there, and set up a state. Read about what mass killings the Kuomintang did to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan when they escaped there.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I didn't make my point clear. I don't have any strong opinions on these matters I brought up, outside "genocide is bad" and other basic ethics. I'm admitting I don't know much about them, not due to apathy but due to.... just information fucking overload. It's absurd to equate me with white supremacists just because I can't keep up with everything going on in the world to exacting detail.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I apologize for being too combative... it just gets exhausting for us to debunk the same points over and over again, especially since the US has a near total monopoly on anglophone media sources.

    We should oppose actual genocide, like the one Israel is carrying out on the Palestinian people with US help, not fake ones like the "white genocide" or "uyghur genocide" which are employed against perceived enemies of the white/western world.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just want to say thank you for understanding :) I absolutely agree about the genocide in Gaza and any invented "white genocide." But with something like Xinjiang, I don't think I can make a call about it, you know? I appreciate your understanding that it's not as clear-cut to everyone about what's going on in the world. It doesn't necessarily make me agree or disagree with you, but it absolutely makes want more to be an ally of yours.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No problem, thx!

    I def recommend reading about the US's many campaigns historically to accuse their enemies of doing the thing they themselves are guilty of. A few good ones off the top of my head are Paul Williams - Operation Gladio and William Blum - Killing Hope

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    There is no genocide in Xinjiang nor, as the accusation used to go, in Tibet. Frivolously accusing an enemy of the west that it's committing genocide, the crime of crimes, when those accusations mainly feed into narratives used to try to balkanize that enemy of the west does present a certain impression. I have no opinion on your character, but I would gently suggest that if you don't have a strong opinion then it doesn't make sense to go around making confident assertions, as you clearly did in the case of Xinjiang (because you surely know the argument being suggested by Cowbee and company is not that the PRC is committing genocide and that such a genocide would be good).

    Your statement on Taiwan is perfectly consistent with how you characterize yourself, however we might disagree, because it was expressed as supporting a side in an issue where there is some consensus on what the sides represent, though obviously I and other communists will say that if you want an independent Taiwan, you I guess want a global revolution because in the current world there is no possibility for an independent Taiwan, like there is no possibility for an independent Tibet, because it will either be part of China or it will be controlled by the US.

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  • [+] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That's very diplomatic, and I appreciate you taking my question seriously. But Dess is a core personality of the Lemmyverse and insulting a huge swathes of people using their platform really puts a lot of distance between the ML community and people they could potentially sway.

    Unless MLs aren't interested in swaying more people to their side and just want to preach to the choir.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    I'm going to continue being wrong and harmful because you were mean pointing out that I was wrong and harmful

    My petty feelings are literally the most important thing in the world so I will never look past them

    You're not talking down to me. I'm talking down to you. So now I feel better. I'm the adult here. I'm good.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Are... are you trying to shame me into agreeing with you? Does the "militant" in Militant Leftist actually mean rageposting and not armed resistance?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you can be faithful to my position and at the same time make me look like a stupid baby you could very well convince me through shame to rethink my position.

    Are you without shame? Can you not be compelled to change your behavior through the negative regard of others?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Listen, random people on the internet try to shame me all the time. It happens even when I don't interact. But it's no indication if a viewpoint is "correct" or whatever.

    Also, agreeing with you about genocides or the events in certain parts of the world or anything is completely separate from supporting you. MLs seem to think that they're one in the same, that anyone who doesn't agree 100% with them are enemies. Even if I did agree with you, black-and-white broad-stroke insults make people not want to work with you.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I specifically criticized you for what you did and you come back whining about 'black and white' and 'broad stroke'

    You took four days to respond and your reply could have been to a comment on any topic that you didn't like.

    It's like you've forgotten how to interact with the outside world on the most basic level

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago*

    No, they are saying that you're diverting a conversation from who is correct to whether or not your interlocutor was rude to you as a waiver for disregarding the substance of what they said. You can disagree, but presenting yourself as having not been courted appropriately is not going to be taken seriously.

    I do actually agree with you that they should speak more gently. Their current behavior is a maladaptive coping mechanism from being inundated with literally thousands and thousands of Redditors who say mostly the same things and won't flinch before likening them to a Nazi or something.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    manipulate Tibet

    Was not Tibet having theocracy and serfdom?

    Uyghurs

    Who were the folk mainly raising the point of Uyghurs tho?
    The white supremacist govts who are enabling and engaging in the Genocide in Palestine?

    Like, for MLs this would seem like anti-vaxx conspiracies, right?

    Taiwan's independence

    Both of them are named Republics of China, right?
    Their own people also seem to wish for reunification, right? Tho, they obviously seem to have dissimilar opinions on which govt they should come under after unification.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why do you use the liberal label? I've been hearing this "China bad" shit from the right for years

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Because the entire US political spectrum fits nearly inside of "neoliberalism". Liberalism in general is just capitalism+.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think the world liberal is used... Liberally. I usually equate it in the US political term for left of center (or rather the opposite of conservatives), but I know the entire US political system is hijacked - both "sides" answer to the same overlords

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The general, international use of "liberal" used here and in leftist circles refers to economic liberalism, which is favoring capitalism (private control of the means of production), free markets, and individualism.

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