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Yeah - find some Australians, British citizens, Canadians, etc. who are serving lengthy jail terms or are currently under house arrest for speaking out about en
by wtrk 18y ago
Yeah - find some Australians, British citizens, Canadians, etc. who are serving lengthy jail terms or are currently under house arrest for speaking out about environmental disasters, labor disputes, and the like. Especially reach out to the ones who've been beaten and tortured for voicing their views and attempting to organize.
The problem of course is that none of that stuff happens to peaceful protesters and activists. It does happen in China.
Any effort to cast the Chinese government and its policies as somehow morally equivalent to the governments of liberal Western democracies is going to fall flat.
- cglee 18y agoI made no such argument.