• Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    First, it’s the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs, same as Israel and the Palestinians.

    Second, no excuses here. You brought up the Israeli genocide in a thread that had nothing to do with the genocide and did it in a way so as to seemingly say that China is somehow less corrupt and guilty than the US… It’s not. Neither genocide is excusable or justifiable.

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
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      6 hours ago

      It is absolutely relevant to why Tiktok is being banned.

      Also equating the two is dishonest at best. The images from both tell a totally different story. You are just propagandized.

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      8 hours ago

      First, it’s the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs

      Then why did the Wikipedia article change its name from Uyghur Genocide to Persecution of Uyghur?

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        8 hours ago

        Genocide is a controversial term.

        Even today, people contest the Armenian genocide, and Ukrainian genocide (holodomir). Even the Holocaust.

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          I think most normal people are quite happy to ignore the opinions of anyone that denies the holocaust.

          Although I wonder how many people realise the scale of it? 6 million Jews gets repeated a lot more than all the other victims. Ask the average person in the street how many died and how many would say it was 6 million in total and forget the rest? The other victims shouldn’t be forgotten about.

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          8 hours ago

          People contest the Ukrainian genocide because it wasn’t a genocide, it was a famine that affected multiple regions including Ukraine, and didn’t have any ethnical component to it.

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            6 hours ago

            It was Stalin who systematically made the famine worse in Ukraine to break them. I learned about it in High School history class.

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              2 hours ago

              Wow, you learned it in high school, must be true then lmao. I was taught in high school that the Spanish empire was cool and based, and there were no atrocities in Latin america in my studies.

              The claims of Holodomor being a genocide against Ukrainian are new, mostly post-2000s, and part of nationalist movements in eastern Europe and russophobia/anticommunism.