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Apparently No One Cares That Much About Ethnic Cleansing
- cmdshiftf4 7y agoGiven the West's absolute addiction to everything Chinese: - Western governments and their affair with selling bonds to China - Western startups and their addiction to Chinese capital - Western tech giants and their addiction to access to the Chinese market, at all costs - Western universities and their preference for rich, Chinese international students - Hardware manufacturers and their dependence on Chinese components - Consumers and their "must have" goods produced in China by most of the above companies - Hollywood and its reliance on Chinese funding - etc. etc. There is no way in hell you are going to see much of a movement against the country or party in these parts, no matter what they get up to. In fact, with the sheer level of influence China has in this section of the globe, I wouldn't be surprised to see criticism of their actions being re-framed as racist/colonialist/the rest of the "ists" by the crew you'd expect it from over here. That those in the West proclaiming themselves to be activists of social justice focus their efforts on a handful of people in migrant boats trying to enter Europe, or people entering the US illegally, or "microaggressions" in Western society, over the real injustices in the world should point to who is controlling the narrative and holding the purse strings.
- anongraddebt 7y agoThese are dark times when the wealthiest, most pampered, and (importantly) bored people on the planet are frustrated about 'microaggressions' while China does what it does. I mean, I never took the people who complained about microaggressions seriously, but I did start to hypothesize why the phenomena even came into existence. I can't find a better hypothesis than that they are just supremely bored with their lives.
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- eesmith 7y agoYour last paragraph simply isn't true. There are many activists working on other injustices. If those are the only three movements you know about then you are quite ill-informed. Black Lives Matter, the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, and Occupy Wall Street are three domestic social justice movements in the US far more significant than discussions about microaggressions.
- chewz 7y agoNo one will say it loud but I am thinking many people quietly agree (in principle) with what China is doing. The rest doesn't care.
- ouid 7y agoI don't think the people who agree with what china is doing have any fear of speaking up.
- gshdg 7y agoPerhaps using a term less euphemistic than “ethnic cleansing” would help people react more appropriately.