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Hey. I want you to Google the name Fred Hampton and find out what America does to it's minority who speaks out.
Maybe consider we have a larger prison population than the 1.whatever billion people. Largely made of our minorities.
Take a mirror to yourself before you throw stones.
This isn't to say China doesn't deserve criticism. The point is that many of your "they are an evil dictatorship who slaughters minorities!" Doesn't hold up when we, a democracy, is doing the same thing but worse.
Man, if that is ethnic cleansing, I wonder what you'd call the mass incarceration and public, ad-hoc executions of black people in America as well as the deprivation of water and electricity of American Indians? What are the migrant concentration camps where they forcibly sterilize women and children are "lost" every day? We actually have pictures of those, you know?
I bet they'd love some Chinese style ethnic cleansing rather than the American "inclusion". Go look at a few videos from actual academics visiting and surveying Xinjiang and not just scary words and satellite photos from the entire ~~Operation Mockingbird team~~ US corporate media.
Gringos oughta fix their nazi ass nation first and shut the fuck up until then.
Gestures at Trump talking about Panama, Greenland, Canada
America took Hawaii
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html
When China is talking about taking over Taiwan for the 60th year in a row without doing anything, it's a serious threat to take preemptive action on.
When America is talking about taking over Panama, Greenland, Canada and Mexico, it's just talking and nothing serious.
Someone doesn't know. Neither the history nor current events of the United States. Oh well. Can't do much with a confidently wrong person.
Gaza.
Or if we are just counting domestic ethnic cleansings, I'd like you to open your mind to some perspectives here you may find hard to accept.
Incoming president is talking about deporting legal and illegal immigrants from central and south America. I'd call that ethnic cleansing
We target our black population with over policing and underfunding restricting them largely to dying neighborhoods where they are then made criminal, arrested And put to slave labor. I would say this is arguably ethnic cleansing.
Native American reservations are poorly taken care of, placed on land of no value, and left to wallow. They starve and live in poverty. They have two choices. Integrate into America or suffer. Kill the Indian save the man. I'd say this is also arguably ethnic cleansing.
Now, your gonna get reeeeeal mad when you read all that and your gonna say " you fucking idiot, that's not ethnic cleansing" and I'm gonna point out the word arguably.
The point here is that you give America a biiiiiiiig pass on its many crimes. But China, a place you know nothing about outside of American sources gets the opposite of a pass. Have you considered that maybe our government, who calls China our mortal enemy, embellished some things? For our entire lives? Just something to consider.
And before you go off on "YOUR JUST EXCUSING CHINA", I am not. I am pointing out a hypocrisy. China has and is doing a lot of fucked up things. But information that is good is hard to find in the sea of state sponsored lies
Fred Hampton
And for the record, I dislike China for what it has done to Tibet the Uyghur people.
Liberating Tibetans from depraved, illiterate serfdom under Tibetan monarchy?[1][2]
Liberating Uyghurs from CIA-backed terrorists’ attacks?[1][2][3]
So you're saying China is LGBT friendly?
It could be better, and compared to some parts of the US, it is better.
So you're saying China supports same sex marriage, trans rights, and doesn't take steps to censor the internet?
Did you come here to make an actual point or just to lay up gotcha questions? Because your human rights concern troll wankery is weak tea in the face an ongoing genocide supported by the imperial core.
Yes China is a dictatorship and theres a lot of censorship. I would still choose living in China over the US 1000 times.
Some Americans believe we're screwed in Europe. I had a US boss trying to "save me" from the "socialist hellhole" that is Switzerland by trying to convince me to move to the US. Some believe Islam is going to sweep across Europe and turn us all into jihadists.
Islam supplanting christianity in europe would unironically be a change for the better
Eh, I'm happy with religion continuing to fade away like it is. Or at least organized religion.
Fundamentalists are all the same no matter the flavor they come in.
I'm afraid Christianity is sweeping across America and turning us into yeehawdists
Average European populist be like..
What's the difference in democracy or dictatorship if both are committing crimes against humanity just one does it by committee