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Source? Not seeing anything on Al Jazeera.

Yeah that's why I jumped straight to asking them about a claim they made elsewhere, I knew they weren't going to be forthright about anything they believe in in this thread. I didn't expect how cowardly they were gonna be about their Zionism.

Yeah you're good, just wanted to say that there isn't a 1:1 comparison between that and the thread topic.

Also gotta love the idea that the people justifying the genocide in Gaza have anything to do with the critics of the protests in Iran.

The only Amerikkkan workkker I respect.

You think the fact that Russia is put under sanctions, barred from participating in international sports and other activities, has their gas lines to the rest of Europe bombed by the US, and is generally treated like they're Nazi Germany is sensible? In a world where the countries making those decisions turn away when Israel and the US do much worse?

Al Jazeera is state media. It should be looked at with similar skepticism as BBC or RT. They're probably one of the best news outlets in the world despite that fact, and I'll forever be in their debt because of their journalists' work and sacrifice to bring the truth of the genocide in Gaza to light. But that doesn't absolve them of ever having bias, no more than the Soviet Union is absolved of any sin because they defeated Nazi Germany.

I think there's a pretty notable difference between what your grandmother went through and China's policies in Xinjiang. The Canadian cultural erasure program was a blanket program to try and erase the culture of all indigenous people. In Xinjiang, the vast majority of Uyghurs haven't been affected by the anti-extremist program. It's a much more limited scope and they mostly target older, chronically underemployed economically vulnerable people to put into a vocational program so they can get employment and get deradicalized from the ETIM ideology. The whole point of the program was to protect all the other people in Xinjiang province from an extremist group, not to integrate them into Han Chinese culture.

I'll leave you with The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz as further reading, but this focuses more on the semiotics and ideology behind this narrative than the actual facts. There used to be a Google Doc called "Notes on China Uighur Controversies" that I read some years ago that explained the full situation with the ETIM and CIA backing of the ETIM very well, sadly it seems it's now down and I don't remember what their sources were (I think many of them were Chinese sources which I can't read anyway).

I talked with you a little bit and thought you were just fine. I don't think we disagreed on anything.

The alt was banned by automod but I'm having a conversation with someone about goat's Zionism

I made an alt to ask them directly since they're in their little embassy now and now they're claiming that they never said Tank Man was killed.

Except that’s the thing: I never claimed tank man was killed (at least, that we know of). I mean, that was the fascination of the whole thing, that he wasn’t just run over by the tanks, especially considering what happened afterwards. Which is the reason, at least as far as I can tell, that the video got so popular.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/53221142/23192629

From 3 hours ago, @unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth has complained about @CyborgMarx@hexbear.net misquoting their comment. They stated the following:

For a fucking bullshit bingo game lol.

At this point I could play the game with the hexbear thread. They’ve already misquoted me by cutting off a part of my sentence to make it look like you should never even talk to them, lest they be right. My God, learn to fucking read lol.

Oh, and they’re discussing the difference between putdowns and insults. I dunno, I learned that shit in school. In a school in the West even! Oh, the horror!

https://sh.itjust.works/post/53221142/23188823

No acknowledgement of my comment where I responded to the full quote because I thought it was even better when taken as a whole.