Re:Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
by newacct583 on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:08AM
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I think you whooshed on the point. Indeed, all those other guys were worse. And they're not here, and we are. China isn't the threat they're being presented as, they're just a convenient point of outrage for a demographic that craves outrage.
In fact, if the upthread point had labelled the PRC the greatest threat to global freedom of the past three decades, then I'd be inclined to agree! But that's not what it said. And we made it through the cold war just fine.
Re:Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
by yellowapple on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:25AM
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> I think you whooshed on the point.
I could say the same about your own grasp of the point; it doesn't seem relevant at all to bring up historical examples of threats to global freedom when we're discussing current examples of threats to global freedom - the PRC pretty unambiguously being one of them (and the US being another, to be clear).
They haven't been a threat for centuries.
> Not the USSR?
The USSR's been dead for 3 decades now.
> Not even, y'know, the ancient chinese empires who subjugated most of asia?
They don't exist anymore, either.