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    9 hours ago

    China hasn’t been directly involved in anything even resembling a genocide since the death of chairman mao at least. There are human rights abuses and questionable decisions (such as not sufficiently opposing the ongoing gaza genocide) but nothing compared to the horrors on earth supported by US and some european countries right fucking now.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t know any EU countries harvesting organs from a whole ethnic group while simultaneously enslaving them.

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        26 minutes ago

        I don’t know of China doing that either, apart from made-up stories from some guys, directly affiliated with the US government, who weren’t even there. Uighurs do have their rights systematically abused and face unfair persecution as an overreaction to terrorism. This fucking sucks, but it’s clearly not a genocide and nothing like what you’re describing. Even English Wikipedia, which historically is biased towards US propaganda because it is sourced from western media, has stopped classifying it as a genocide.

        Meanwhile Germany is sending weapons and diplomatic support to a literal genocidal apartheid state, which has been bombing civilian infrastructure and shooting children for fun since the founding, with at least 100k dead (at least 27k of them children) just in the last 3 years; France & UK are still empires which hold land overseas and continue doing “soft” - cultural & economic - imperialism in their sphere of influence; and all western quality of life improvements are sustained on exploitation of cheap unregulated labor from many global south countries, enforced by the US invading and/or overthrowing everyone who tries to stop it.

        Some of what China is doing domestically sucks. The Uighur thing is bad, LGBT rights are not enshrined into law and instead exist in a legal vacuum, the internet censorship is shit, the wealth inequality is growing, the one-child policy was a bad idea which led to a femicide and creation of “second-class citizens”, there are still regions where the rural population lives in slums (the last two are being slowly addressed though).

        But it’s not even close to the current level of suffering caused by western imperialism.