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Another day, another story of an Asian nation that deeply feers the personal expression and curiosity of its citizens. Thailand, Singapore, China... how privile
by hellofunk 11y ago
Another day, another story of an Asian nation that deeply feers the personal expression and curiosity of its citizens. Thailand, Singapore, China... how privileged so many of us are, taking for granted that we grew up in a culture where that particular level of explicit distrust does not exist.
- chillacy 11y agoExcept it's even worse, because in this particular case they're targeting an area full of ethnic minorities in a Han dominated china: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang The strong coercing the weak.
- iofj 11y agoThe idea that the strong coercing the weak is wrong is an idea that got spread by Christianity. Neither the Chinese state, nor the muslim Uighurs think there is anything wrong with the strong coercing the weak. The Uighur complaint is different. It's unjust because it's not them doing it, not because the concept is wrong. And this is a very important distinction to make, because you likely think that strengthening the muslims there would make them defend the weak. It is much more likely that something like the partition wars in India would happen.
- hellofunk 11y agoAnother day, another story about Christians somehow causing the problems in nations that aren't Christian. These problems really have nothing to do with religion.