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0 pointsquaquaqua16y ago0 comments

I do not deny any of the claims you have made about concentration camps, human rights abuses, corporate interests etc.

But I would really like to understand why there is a double standard in the minds of "my fellow Westerners".

Boeing, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Halliburton, Lockheed, and the whole Washington aparatus in general have been (in)directly responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people in the Middle East, yet I am still happy to use Instagram and Whatsapp and Youtube.

Similarly I will use TikTok concurrently while understanding that the Chinese government has locked 1 million Uighurs in a concentration camp. Surely, not every Chinese citizen voted for this idea. So we shouldn't make assumptions about what "Chinese people" are like

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crematoria6y ago

Nobody is stereotyping the Chinese people!

Google and Apple have publicly stood up against the US government, and the US doesn't (publicly and legally, at least) meddle with companies to anywhere near the same extent as China.

When I support Google, I support Google alone, but when I support Tencent, it feels a little like I'm supporting the Chinese government, too.

guuguuguu6y ago

Imagine being this native.

CharlesColeman6y ago

> So we shouldn't make assumptions about what "Chinese people" are like

Again, no one is condemning the Chinese people here.

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