Finding an unbiased take on China’s treatment of the Ughyurs is neigh impossible. However, reading Chinese law involving the state’s legal definition of extremism does not inspire much confidence.

https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js?t=510

(7) Wearing, or compelling others to wear, burqas with face coverings, or to bear symbols of extremification

Did the French infiltrate the Chinese government? A lot of the attitudes towards Ughyurs really is reminiscent of the Western attitudes towards the Natives in the Americas. The Europeans saw themselves as culturally superior and civilized, so they took it upon themselves to “educate” the indigenous. Do you believe that there exists any peoples that are truly above some sort of exceptionalism, or is this false pride just a part of human nature?

Granted, even the video linked and its evidence were from five years ago. Lots might have changed since then.

Short-form brainrot ver.

That makes sense. It definitely takes a certain kind of privilege to be able to live with and afford such a blissfully ignorant stance.

I see that now. Maybe my bar for decency is too low because as non-ideal ignorance may be, at least they admitted it and just focused on Israeli spyware.

Had it stopped there, I would have said the other initial responses were a tad unnecessarily harsh, but then the OP commenter dropped some real shitter takes.

I am not the original commenter. This comment asking “why” was before the OP commenter “both-sides” the genocide with “muh khamas”.

At the time, OP commenter was just talking about Israeli spyware using BDS as a source while also letting us know they are uninformed about the genocide and thus don’t have a stance. My understanding was that this was to deflect any criticism or accusations from Zionists for being biased.

While it is not ideal, there are a million reasons why someone may be ignorant on a conflict, atrocity, phenomenon, etc. It could be willfull ignorance, it could be that their environment does everything possible to keep them ignorant; regardless, until I know the reason, I cannot judge them.

What matters to me more is how they act with said ignorance. In this case, they initially said they are very poorly informed aka “I don’t know”. Instead of talking about what they don’t know (genocide, settler-colonial conflict, Zionism, etc), they only spoke about what they do know (Israeli spyware).

I think this is fine, especially since those who know they are ignorant and refuse to speak on what they don’t know are generally open to learn or have any misconceptions corrected. I also have very low expectations of Amerikkkans from the land of the burger, home of the fries.

This all is to say, this is why I was asking “why”. My mind was focused on the spyware, and I was wondering why another commenter didn’t like it. Was the information inaccurate?

Since then, a lot of other commenters responded–I now understand why they take issue with the OP comment, though I believed the initial responses were unnecessarily harsh. However, the OP commenter, despite knowing full well their ignorance, dropped the “muh khamas” shitter nuke, so…

Why?

Maybe if we stopped letting bad things happen, there wouldn’t be so much bad news.