My partner is Lebanese and one issue that has consistently come up with any discussion of Marxism (and honestly the online left as a whole) is Uyghur genocide denial. Essentially, they see it as proof of (white) western leftists being hypocrites and having a glaring Islamophobia problem. I’m inclined to defer to them, but at the same time, I’ve found myself often politically aligning with MLs on other issues, and I know very little about Chinese internal politics or the Uyghurs myself, so I would greatly appreciate being able to get an understanding of what the ML perspective is.
To the Islamaphobia accusations, basically every global Islam organisation has been to investigate, and found no genocide. The issue is purely one of Western projection.
And as with so much projection, one function is to whitewash the West’s crimes. “Look how much we care about Muslims! (Ignore the millions of them we’ve murdered through imperialist wars of aggression)”