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Seriously, @TorontoStar what is this trash fire take?
"Ditto the Uighurs. The world had little to say when China was fighting a low-level Uighur insurgency in Xinjiang province. Now, Beijing is routinely accused of genocide."
Because it *escalated*!!?? https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/11/19/china-has-an-abysmal-record-on-human-rights-so-why-the-sudden-uproar.html
"Ditto the Uighurs. The world had little to say when China was fighting a low-level Uighur insurgency in Xinjiang province. Now, Beijing is routinely accused of genocide."
Because it *escalated*!!?? https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/11/19/china-has-an-abysmal-record-on-human-rights-so-why-the-sudden-uproar.html
"It’s the same with Hong Kong. The territory has never been run democratically. It wasn’t democratic when it was a British colony. It wasn’t democratic when it was handed back to China in 1997."
lol this is border line tankie ideology. Abolish the mediocre white man takes.
lol this is border line tankie ideology. Abolish the mediocre white man takes.
I mean, its not like Hong Kong generationally organized strikes and rioted against the British colonial government for greater worker rights, decolonialization, and self-determination. Right??? https://lausan.hk/2019/hong-kong-political-strikes-brief-history/
Also notice how "the West" and "the World" are conveniently conflated in this piece.
