> a large group of non-white people has escaped crushing poverty, but at the very fucking least Chinese people are no longer starving to death by the millions.

I'm pretty sure skin colour isn't related to poverty, maybe you can blame chairman Mao for that.

> this tiny measure of progress and hope

So you suggest all the bad things happened to Uyghurs and Han people can be justified with economic growth? That's just a lame argument used by the CCP all the time.