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This made me realize how "extremism" has been propagandized.
To us, China is the extremist, not the Uyghur Muslims. China meanwhile is simply "removing extremist elements."
It's not about extremism.
It's just pure evil, driven by a mad desire for power.
#WorldRefugeeDay
To us, China is the extremist, not the Uyghur Muslims. China meanwhile is simply "removing extremist elements."
It's not about extremism.
It's just pure evil, driven by a mad desire for power.
#WorldRefugeeDay
Extremism assumes you're starting with a valid baseline.
What it usually means is deviant. It's not something valid taken to an illogical end. It was invalid to begin with.
Repression, beating people's identity out of them, is both as old as history and inherently deviant.
What it usually means is deviant. It's not something valid taken to an illogical end. It was invalid to begin with.
Repression, beating people's identity out of them, is both as old as history and inherently deviant.
Of course, extremism being an inherently relative term, it provides an excellent way for deviant powers to repress: arbitrarily define a baseline and then call everyone who doesn't meet it "extreme."
Watch the framing.
Watch the terminology.
And call it out.
Watch the framing.
Watch the terminology.
And call it out.
Did China learn nothing from the Cultural Revolution?
My old professor Sydney Rittenberg, the only American allowed inside the inner circle of Mao's China, thrown into solitary confinement for 6, then 10 more years, wrote this:
My old professor Sydney Rittenberg, the only American allowed inside the inner circle of Mao's China, thrown into solitary confinement for 6, then 10 more years, wrote this:
