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That's american-on-american, I was talking about geopolitical interests. I saw reports of posts from air force bases supporting our attempted coup in Bolivia,
by refenestrator 6y ago
That's american-on-american, I was talking about geopolitical interests.
I saw reports of posts from air force bases supporting our attempted coup in Bolivia, for example.
- Robotbeat 6y agoUyghurs in Xinjiang are typically Chinese citizens. Chinese-on-Chinese (in the nationality sense). So it sounds fairly consistent to me.
- refenestrator 6y agoI guess it depends on how you split it, there's not a significant population of Uyghur nationalists of twitter. It's mostly westerners using them as a bludgeon to try and strike the chinese.
- Robotbeat 6y agoA bludgeon? The Chinese government doesn’t need defending from the big bad westerners telling them not to genocide their own people. It’s not about Uyghur nationalism (although I suppose more Uyghurs may desire that if China keeps this up) but about human rights. This eagerness to defend the CCP is not going to help anyone abused by Western nations. One genocide does not justify another.