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I detest Trump (voted for Clinton) and most, if not all, senior members of his administration, including Barr. But that doesn't prevent me from ultimately being
by ralmidani 6y ago
I detest Trump (voted for Clinton) and most, if not all, senior members of his administration, including Barr. But that doesn't prevent me from ultimately being OK with some of their statements/actions, even if they're all for the wrong reasons. The regime in China represents evil on a scale that is probably unprecedented in Earth's history, and anything that can stop or slow its world domination should be welcomed or at the very least acquiesced to. That regime is bad for the overwhelming majority of Chinese people (regardless of race and religion), bad for everyone else, and bad for the planet.
The above paragraph risks triggering some knee-jerk "what about the US/NATO?" responses. Let me save you the trouble: the West is guilty of countless crimes, especially against non-White people. But at least for some periods in history, most citizens of most Western countries were not systematically disenfranchised, monitored, disappeared, tortured, and killed. Yes, living in America while being Black, Hispanic, Arab (that's me), Muslim (ditto), etc. there's still a lot of anxiety, discrimination, and even danger. But it's incredibly naive to think the people of China are not orders of magnitude more oppressed and in constant fear for their livelihoods, lives, and loved ones.
- DevKoala 6y agoI feel the same as you. I am also an immigrant that came to the USA escaping a country where people were suffering after decades of oppression and a string of socialist dictatorships. Seeing the actions of the CCP being normalized and defended in the USA concerns me a lot.
- ralmidani 6y agoI didn't immigrate to the US, my parents did. From Syria. I lived there for a few years, and it's absolutely infuriating how some Americans equate their government with Assad, CCP, Khamenei, Putin, Kim, Duterte, etc.
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- stx 6y agoExactly its not as if we do not have issue in the USA and we did have a dark history (slavery for example). I think many Americans do not know how good we have it. In some ways our worst enemy is ourselves.
- hungryhobo 6y agodo you find it kinda scary that you can hate a regime so much given that you've never been to said country? I'm 99% sure you've never been to China given what you wrote.
- ralmidani 6y agoNot going to address this post directly, but a quick glance at hungryhobo's comments shows that at least the first three pages (i.e. the most recent comments) are exclusively about defending the regime in China. If that's not trolling, I don't know what is.
- hungryhobo 6y agoCan't argue my point and has to resort to ad hominem, kinda figured. But I think it's just as important having people with different opinions on this platform, I think you kinda prove my point
- ralmidani 6y ago> it's just as important having people with different opinions Too bad the regime you defend isn't as enlightened as you are.
- hungryhobo 6y agoYou think people in china have one opinion?
- vorpalhex 6y agoHave you? How many cameras are there in the train station from HK to GZ? I lost count at 50. How many times do you go through a complete search as you take the metro trains? How many WeChat messages just never quite show up? Only pooh bear knows.
- hungryhobo 6y ago
- echaozh 6y ago>> he regime in China represents evil on a scale that is probably unprecedented in Earth's history Yeah, Nazi is now the cute one in the room, given China is here, right? At least the Nazis are white. I don't know, maybe killing Native Americans for their land, enslaving the black, and selling opium to weaken a whole nation for their silver are all less evil than what the Chinese are now doing. But who knows, people have forgotten those deeds haven't they?