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Xi's name, along with that of Genghis Khan, now appears on the shortlist of most-despised dictators. First he imprisoned hundreds of thousands of muslim Uighur
by filistine 6y ago
Xi's name, along with that of Genghis Khan, now appears on the shortlist of most-despised dictators. First he imprisoned hundreds of thousands of muslim Uighurs for "reeducation" and left their unprotected families and wives to be raped by Han men in Xinjiang province and now he attempts to erase the historical record of a near-mythical figure that everyone in the Western and Eastern worlds knows of. But certainly Xi has read the poem "Ozymandias"?
Xi's killing, although qualifying as genocide, is paltry compared to that of Genghis Khan, who killed more people on some days than Xi has killed in a lifetime. Perhaps Xi is jealous.
- diffrinse 6y agoXi is exacting specific cultural violence as an administrator, neither the Mongols nor the Romans were as ridiculously obsessed with building an ethno-state as Xi once conquest was largely complete. Somehow, antiquity, immensely cruel and violent as it was, understood cultural/religious tolerance as an administrative principle better than a number of governments do today Grouping Xi and Ghengis Khan is also an affront to the way in which modern state violence is exacted, we're comparing a confederation of nomadic horse warriors already habituated to raiding as a lifestyle vs a rational state organizing targeted cultural purgation
- filistine 6y agoA big "Yes!" to your first paragraph. And a remarkably clear observation that holds and is worth investigation in many other regions of the world (e.g., the Levant prior to the existence of the modern state of Israel). But I am unclear what you're trying to say in your second paragraph.