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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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Whataboutism is when you bring up a valid point in order to diminish or distract from another valid point, and to make the other side look hypocritical. This is NOT an instance of that.
It's completely understandable that the Notre Dame fire would get more attention than the destruction of world heritage sites in obscure Xinjiang, but if the latter can get even a little bit of attention as a result of the former, gross human rights abuses may be slowed down.
All of humanity is diminished when a world heritage site is destroyed, be it by accident, by terrorism, or by an intentional machine of cultural genocide.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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Following is a thread quoting Chinese troll accounts, employed to deny the Chinese government's cultural genocide campaign in Xinjiang. Please report all of these accounts as "suspicious or spam" -> "fake";
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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As a Palestinian you have no fucking idea how much this enrages me. You will not buy us you fucking cowards neither will you break us. You have not seen an Intifadha yet.
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Sudan's domino effect may be here - this seems to be from a protest against Isaias Afwerki, the first and only president of Eretria since it gained independence in 1993. The caption says: "It's your turn Dr.", the exact same slogan that started the 2011 Syrian revolution.
Just below that caption, it says: "Sudan is the teacher to other nations"
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