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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk
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    7 hours ago

    If you have to ask, then it is time to read up on some basic history. Key words to use:

    Mao

    Tiananem square

    Xinjiang internment camps

    The one child policy, it’s immediate consequences and current day consequences.

    Human trafficking, sex trafficking, abductions and illegal adoptions

    Women’s rights in China

    Gay rights in China. Specifically the banning and censorship of apps like grinder and erasure of “effeminate men” in media

    China during Covid

    China human rights violations

    China freedom of speech

    Maybe some of these will give you a head start.

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      5 hours ago

      Tiananmen Square was not simply a violent escalation of the Chinese state, so not sure if I’d wanna count that, and the “Xianjang Internment camps” still seem like made up bullshit by Adrian Zenz and the likes. But I didn’t simply ask what makes China bad, because I’m well aware of that, I asked what makes it worse than the US. Key words here:

      Literally every president the US ever had in the past decades

      War for almost the entire existence of the country

      ICE and their camps

      Pretty much daily school shootings and overall gun culture for that matter

      Women’s rights in the US

      Police violence

      Horrible healthcare system causing thousands of deaths every year

      Increasingly limited LGBTQ rights

      War on Drugs

      War on Terror

      Support of or direct involvement in multiple genocides

      Massive surveillance network, not just in the US, but globally

      Hundreds of military bases all across the world

      Guantanamo Bay

      Human rights violations

      Preventing people in certain countries from accessing certain much needed medications and extortion of pharmaceutical companies in other countries

      Meddling in other countries’ political environment and even killing or kidnapping democratically elected heads of states

      Creation and funding of terrorist groups and states

      Bombing mostly innocent countries to ashes and committing countless war crimes, including the use of nuclear and chemical weapons

      I’m probably still missing things…


      China overall has bad track record when it comes to everything related to all kinds of individual freedoms, but considering that the US is actually deliberately killing and torturing people to no end (at least on a much, much larger scale than China), I’d say that they are way worse than China. And again, this is no excuse for China, I just think they don’t match the cruelty of the American empire.