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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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[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 5 months ago

I think an important difference between how racism manifests in China vs. America is that the Communist Party almost always takes an anti-racist stance. Sure, China has race riots. The difference between China and America is that when the police and army take a side, they're defending the minorities from Han mobs, not the other way around.