• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I am sure China has committed genocides in the past but I am also not putting Japan on the genocide list because the rape of Nanking. The only event people keep bringing up regarding China is the Tiannenmen Square riots where less than a thousand people were killed. And even accepting all Western narratives that was certainly not a targeted extermination of a certain population but it would be political repression.

    We are talking about active genocides. People need to stop devalueing the word genocide.

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      7 days ago

      I never said genocide I was just pointing out that they’ve done a bit more than just authoritarianism and repression. Tiannenmen square is a blip on the CCP massacres.

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        7 days ago

        Germany and America are beating protesters harder than China currently and nobody accuses them of genocide for that.

        America is directly committing genocide in Gaza with their boots on the ground though. And Germany is heavily complicit.

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          7 days ago

          Ah yes, the American private military contractors on the ground distributing aid and Germans beating some protestors. Totally comparable to China killing 4 million of their own people.

          Also theres a news story on the front page of chinese police beating citizens bloody with batons and cattle prods for protesting justice for girl who got bullied.

          Is China responsible for supplying russia in their war?