Probably because saying it’s not a genocide is literally just a tankie talking point that got turned into “uhmmm acskually theyre just doing all these humans rights abuses that result in cultural erasure, death, SA, etc. that’s not TECHNICALLY genocide, somehow”
I mean, are you saying that the forced assimilation, reeducation camps, forced labor, forced sterilization, etc isn’t a genocide?
Yeah, I think the protests are stupid now that I look at why it happened.
That being said, I still can’t trust you, it’s so hard to get around to the good info when I know you’re actively attempting to use language to manipulate my thinking. Framing them as “riots” when they are acknowledged internationally as mostly peaceful protests.
Yes. You are currently advocating for “minority report”-style pre-action.
I’m saying it sounds like the direct violent conflict between protestors and counter protestors seems to be pretty low, not much higher than any other rate of violent crime I would guess.
Most of the violence to my understanding was between protestors and police, who reportedly repeatedly used unnecessary force.
It seems like you’re trying to justify the suppression of protest and the killing of 5 people by the government because there were 2 counter protestor deaths.
If this were America, and we were communists protesting capitalist rule, and the police were mistreating us and we rose up in violence, would you condemn that? Would you condemn them attacking capitalist counter protestors? I don’t think you would, right? That’s hypocrisy.
Dunno where you got that from. Fuck the Ukraine government and Hong Kong government.
Why does me taking issue with a government’s actions against civilians make me pro-some government? Oh right, it doesn’t, you’re just too brainwashed to understand that not everyone falls in line into “camps” like you choose to do. Sheep.
Yes, correct, anyone can perform authoritarian actions. Someone who insists upon it is an authoritarian. That simple enough for your pea brain?
I don’t think it’s fair to classify the protests as riots when the violence seems to have mostly been escalated from the police side and the violence against counter protesters seems to be fairly isolated incidents taking place between small groups? Give some more insight, you might be turning me a little bit here
I still disagree with you, there’s definitely some misfires and people misusing the term, but the majority of people who use the word know that it’s a pejorative for exclusively authoritarian communists, usually specifically those who would look the other way when their “socialist” government commits atrocities.
This is certainly an example of abhorrently violent behavior that I will assume is unjustified (I didn’t want to watch the video, I’m not desensitized to this stuff). And to clarify, this is supposed to justify ramping up violent response to protesters? Instead of searching for and arresting perpetrators who were caught on film?
Idk I mean obviously you gave me the NYT so it’s probably pretty anti-China and depicts all this stuff as fighting back. But do you have evidence it’s not?
It seems the violence described in the article is at least partially in response to a cop shooting a teenager? Got something else?
What’s a screed?
Violent protests according to whom btw?
Who was being hurt by rioters?
low effort rage bait, try harder
English isn’t prescriptivist, it’s descriptivist. I’m sorry for assuming English was your first language.
A slur is like a more advanced pejorative that you shouldn’t say, usually because it targets people who can’t change whatever trait is being targetted. Tankie isn’t a slur, because I’m allowed to call you a tankie all day. Hope that helped!
Genuinely, do it
Yes, my point is that any state with laws is authoritarian. I think I also said in another post that I think an authoritarian government does not have to be bad. The problem is that the government is doing bad things, though, so like…
How do we not all understand the moral inconsistency of insisting people “not vote for genocide” and then be complicit in things like Russian imperialism and Chinese suppression of freedoms lol
Whoa! Exactly!
“ACAB except when they’re brutalizing the people I want to see brutalized.”