Almost every single "expert" is white-as-glue, too.
It's messed up how if you cite any Pakistani or Chinese source everyone loses their mind like "how can you trust these sellouts!!!", meanwhile the entire discourse is monopolized by people that look like this:
People accuse me of being angry, and yeah, I'm really angry. The world is being dragged into war, and these weird losers are gloating about their ability to make it happen.
The newest iteration of the same garbage we get served every decade it seems.
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Angela Nagle was very prominently featured on the likes of ChapoTrapHouse and CurrentAffairs. She argues for abandoning "identity politics" to appeal to the platonic racist white construction worker, attacking immigrants, queer people, etc.
Absolutely fascinating Foreign Policy article about China, Xinjiang, and Uyghurs from May 2014!
Before Obama's "pivot to Asia" got going, propaganda was still wall-to-wall "Muslim Terrorism", so people wrote about Chinese issues more sympathetically. foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/14/one…
Opens up by clearly explaining that there is indeed ongoing terrorism in the region, but that Uyghurs lived normaly lives all over China.
This fact is nowadays obscured, terrorism merely an "allegation" from the "regime".
Look at this! The "some would say" is reserved not to demonize those who hold back on demonizing China, but on those who do!
Nowadays we hear wall-to-wall the opposite: "China's propaganda machine (some would say news station)"
Black Ribbon Day effectively constitutes a collaboration between anti-communist Nazis and collaborators imported into Canada as "refugees" post WW2, and the capitalist ruling class who appreciates their fervent opposition to pro-social communist activism and agitation.
Since 2009, in Canada, both Liberals and Conservatives have been trying to make "Black Ribbon Day" a thing.
The August 23rd remembrance attempts to draw an equivalence between the Holocaust and "the crimes of Communism".
"Nazi hunter" Steve Ramban points out that "between 2,000 and 5,000 war criminals fled to Canada after the Second World War, but not one Nazi has ever been successfully prosecuted in this country". nationalpost.com/news/canada/na…
@calicoarse Unfortunately my mandarin isn't yet so good that I can improve on anyone's translations, but I do have some information on this leak.
I think the "framing" of the report itself does a lot of the work, though. Take these three screenshots:
@calicoarse One of the authors, Austin Ramzy, was recently caught by a Chinese commentator tipping his hand a bit too hard in terms of revealing his feelings towards China via some aesthetic choices on Twitter.
I'm gonna make a thread about key resources that I encountered as I researched Xinjiang/Uyghur accusations. No particular order, maybe vaguely chronological.
This documentary critique by Sun Feiyang was the first, flipping the BBC narrative on its head. medium.com/@sunfeiyang/br…
I happened to be taking Mandarin classes at the time, so tidbits like deliberate mis-translation really grabbed me. Or the "dramatic irony" wrt leaving.
It's really quite something watching the documentary before and after.
Basically a top-tier class in recognizing propaganda!
Then I started looking at the more "grassroots" kinda evidence, little videos from regular people in social media crying, making it seem like existence there was quite sad and miserable.
That turned out this thread full of debunked clips and stories:
Western-leftist critiques of capitalism, informed by anarchism/libertarianism, tend to focus on the mechanisms of exploitation. The best example is the simplistic anti-communist metaphor by Bakunin, rehashed by Chomsky, about "the People's Stick".
Adherence to these platitudes explains why they offer only begrudging praise in acknowledgement of how well China and Cuba are handling the crisis. Communist lessons are largely ignored when westerners look to improve their own situation.
The issue is that, when it comes to exploitation, the anarchist critique focuses on *how*, whereas Marxist critique focuses on *why*. The difference between Feudalism and Capitalism was the most interesting thing in the world to Marx, whereas anarchists focus on similarities.