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My partner is Lebanese and one issue that has consistently come up with any discussion of Marxism (and honestly the online left as a whole) is Uyghur genocide denial. Essentially, they see it as proof of (white) western leftists being hypocrites and having a glaring Islamophobia problem. I'm inclined to defer to them, but at the same time, I've found myself often politically aligning with MLs on other issues, and I know very little about Chinese internal politics or the Uyghurs myself, so I would greatly appreciate being able to get an understanding of what the ML perspective is.

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[โ€“] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

57 might be possible! I always forget the number and the actual name they use in China for it. I think it also depends on how you count but for all intents and purposes the CPC's recognized number is probably 57

[โ€“] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago

There's ethnic groups, cultural groups, language groups and I can never remember which is which and the terms keep getting translated differently.