• ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Debunked sinophobic stuff like what? In my experience, that category includes anything critical of China, including Tiananmen Square.

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      I think there were two links to the gore page people post and a couple of responses saying you couldn’t even talk about tiannamen square.

      The first is clear what it is, I’d call the second one sinophobic because it’s patently untrue and is basically an anti-china buzzword now. Idk why mods did what they did.

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        4 months ago

        Genuine question, is criticism of the Israeli government, even based on falsehoods or misunderstandings, antisemitism?

        To say that reference to a historical event that the CCP doesn’t believe happened the way the west does is sinophobic is on the same level. At best you’d have people with unjustified animus towards the government of China but not its people. After all, is the claim that the people of China collectively slaughtered those student protesters demanding reasonable changes to a corrupt system or that the government did so?

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          4 months ago

          Genuine question, is criticism of the Israeli government, even based on falsehoods or misunderstandings, antisemitism?

          It isn’t inherently but it definitely can be. It’s absolutely possible to criticize Israel’s government in an antisemitic way. In the same way, you can look at anti-Japanese posters from WWII that have racist charicatures and recognize and criticize the racist element, while acknowledging that Imperial Japan was absolutely vile.