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In "the past few hundred years" the US took over the American continent and cleaned up exceptionally well. In a world of global competition singling out Xinjia
by magicsmoke 6y ago
In "the past few hundred years" the US took over the American continent and cleaned up exceptionally well.
In a world of global competition singling out Xinjiang as a colony while ignoring how China's biggest military threat is literally built on top of colonial conquests isn't a fair comparison. Where is the line that makes Xinjiang a "colony" while New York isn't? Is the US going to magically move its navy back to its side of the Pacific and stop waving it menacingly around China's oil shipping routes if China carves out Xinjiang and Tibet?
- pradn 6y agoI'm explicitly trying to draw a parallel between other colonial states and China. This isn't absolving other colonial states in any way. The colony-empire relationship is a just a node along the gradient of territory and domination. The relevant thing here is the continued persecution of the Uyghur minority and the annexation of territory, and continued resistance. It's similar to Kashmir under India, Palestine under Israel, and East Timor under Indonesia.
- TT3351 6y agoI think it's more than a little disingenuous to insinuate New York is a colony without representation in government.
- ufmace 6y agoNo country's history is entirely pretty. This is about addressing what's happening right now. China is actively working to crush Uyghur culture under their boots right now. This very story is about how they're actively building more "reeducation" camps. American isn't doing anything remotely as bad right now.