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China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Post by ginko »

krona wrote: post #20
onethought wrote: post #11

Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1]. And we sit idly by. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth... .

Quite. And anyone of German nationality doesn't have a leg to stand on! Let's not even start with the Turks.

On the contrary. Anyone of German nationality HAS to speak up about these things.

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Post by KMag »

krona wrote: post #20
onethought wrote: post #11

Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1]. And we sit idly by. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth... .

Quite. And anyone of German nationality doesn't have a leg to stand on! Let's not even start with the Turks.

... and the conclusion should be that we all encourage each other to become better and pressure our governments to make better laws.

A flawed past is the worst excuse against striving for a better future.

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Post by adflux »

krona wrote: post #20
onethought wrote: post #11

Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1]. And we sit idly by. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth... .

Quite. And anyone of German nationality doesn't have a leg to stand on! Let's not even start with the Turks.

... What the hell?

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Post by ForHackernews »

onethought wrote: post #11

Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1]. And we sit idly by. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth... .

This is some tired-ass whattaboutism shit[0]. Say what you will about the USA, but it is at least a flawed democracy. The Black Lives Matter movement is having a real impact. Can you imagine the Uighur equivalent in China?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Post by baybal2 »

PicassoCTs wrote: post #2

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> Cheering on a todays stalin or hitler, because you are in opposition to some factions of your democratic society, makes you a complicit in their atrocities.

Absolutely. I see really hard to fathom log from fellows who scream "There is no Democracy in America!," and then decide to run to China.

Never met such personally, but I know such are all around the tech industry here. Chinese medias are exhilariating about them day, and night.

They are your new Earl Browders, and Zara Witkins. Not poor people, not unpriveleged people, not marginalised people, who go bark at America, and its system, while making tons of money in China very much thanks to their priveleged status, and opportunities America gave them.

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Post by loceng »

inglor_cz wrote: post #18

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There was a very narrow attempt at this where t-shirts with messaging on them were given out to people going to sit and watch NBA games that would be broadcast [in China]. They'd remove people initially if they didn't take off the shirts but in places like Toronto where you'd have many people wearing them and too much backlash, they just stopped having cameras showing the spectators in the stands.

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Post by loceng »

koonsolo wrote: post #12
hutzlibu wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Doing business with those force drafted henchmen kept in with mafia methods, makes you a criminal." So block any trade with china?

US has been doing that with Cuba for a very long time. And how big of a threat is that?

The CCP has China's economy integrated heavily with economies around the world. A multi-lateral trade agreement between the parties that will replace the goods provided by hardworking Chinese - to curb away funding to the CCP.

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Post by kspacewalk2 »

onethought wrote: post #11

Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1]. And we sit idly by. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth... .

Oh for sure, for sure. A country where there's systemic bias against a racial group in the judicial system, and a famous activist who was murdered 50 years ago is *totally* the same thing as an ongoing totalitarian system of high-tech cultural genocide and mass incarceration/'reeducation' of an ethnic group.

It's unbelievable that PRC partisans think this shameless nonsense will elicit anything but incredulous fury in anyone familiar with the facts and not, well, a PRC partisan.

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Post by inglor_cz »

loceng wrote: post #27
inglor_cz wrote: post #18

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There was a very narrow attempt at this where t-shirts with messaging on them were given out to people going to sit and watch NBA games that would be broadcast [in China]. They'd remove people initially if they didn't take off the shirts but in places like Toronto where you'd have many people wearing them and too much backlash, they just stopped having cameras showing the spectators in the stands.

There seems to be some space for flooding Twitter, Instagram and Facebook with photos and short clips taken by activist fans. The NBA bosses would then have to attempt to ban people from carrying their mobile phones to a game - a measure very unlikely to succeed.
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