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a while ago i was in an argument with an anarchist about china and they hit me with the uyghur genocide argument so i sent them the article with the CIA guy openly admitting its a fabrication and they just didnt reply so im genuinely trying to wrap my mind around it. are they just in straight up denial and ignore it when people bring it up?

OR, the more horrifying alternative, are there some who just fw with the CIA for stopping ”red fascism”?? i know some people honestly believe communists should support ukraine due to ”morals” so maybe its possible?

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you send me that cia doc? Haven't seen it before

[–] opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

uyghur:

https://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zt_120777/dmxj/wjbxinjiang1/xjzhenxiang/202106/t20210625_9039434.htm

” The speaker is Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell and retired US Army Colonel. He was speaking at the Ron Paul Institute in August 2018 on the threefold purposes of the US presence in Afghanistan, one of which is to contain China. He said undisguisedly that "the third reason we were there [in Afghanistan] is because there are 20 million Uyghurs [in Xinjiang]. The CIA would want to destabilize China and that would be the best way to do it to foment unrest and to join with those Uyghurs in pushing the Han Chinese in Beijing from internal places rather than external".”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Cvx0R8iDo

as for the CIA liking anarchists i cant find the doc this instant but i know its in the COINTELPRO

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They dismiss links to gov.cn and the Ron Paul Institute out of hand. They censor themselves.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Do you have a link to the full speech, by any chance? Thanks either way.

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: