Not just that, I know that anyone like that would also be insisting that Israel is just a smol bean innocent good guy nation defending themselves from the evil arabs. It’s actually kind of amazing how I’ve never seen someone who believes both Palestine and Xinjiang are genocides.
It’s almost like they know the Xinjiang propaganda is complete bullshit but it lets them be racist against Chinese people and get away with it.
I don’t understand your second paragraph. Most people in Europe think that Israel is committing a genocide, that China is either committing a genocide in Xinjiang or forcing the people into labor camps (and additionally that Putin started the war with Ukraine)
In my experience there are a million hand waves from people (in Australia at least) who will justify why Xinjiang is totally a real genocide while Israel’s situation is just “complicated”. Granted, it is literally illegal in my country to chant “from the river to the sea” so people might just not want to be openly pro-Palestine in public. But they are more than happy to froth at the mouth with glee at the thought of the evil Chinese committing a genocide, they actively want China to be doing horrible things, so they can justify their own blind hatred and racism.
Oh I get it. Different situation about Palestine then. Good luck navigating this then. To me it’s already really hard facing the generalized hatred of China. It’s like I can never take a breather, even surrounded by leftists or “socialists”/“communists” (happened yesterday again), it’s really painful and tiring, and I’ve only been back here for a month (from a 3-month trip to China mind you)
So in Australia and the US I understand it could be extremely challenging
just today I had someone send me the new ethnic unity law to say “see China is forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities to learn mandarin” and compared it to the genocide of Armenians and persecution of LGBTQ people. this is a white USian so we know they really care about ethnic minorities
Anyone who says “East Turkestan” is a fucking crank. Like you are fully gobbling down the propaganda
Not just that, I know that anyone like that would also be insisting that Israel is just a smol bean innocent good guy nation defending themselves from the evil arabs. It’s actually kind of amazing how I’ve never seen someone who believes both Palestine and Xinjiang are genocides.
It’s almost like they know the Xinjiang propaganda is complete bullshit but it lets them be racist against Chinese people and get away with it.
I don’t understand your second paragraph. Most people in Europe think that Israel is committing a genocide, that China is either committing a genocide in Xinjiang or forcing the people into labor camps (and additionally that Putin started the war with Ukraine)
In my experience there are a million hand waves from people (in Australia at least) who will justify why Xinjiang is totally a real genocide while Israel’s situation is just “complicated”. Granted, it is literally illegal in my country to chant “from the river to the sea” so people might just not want to be openly pro-Palestine in public. But they are more than happy to froth at the mouth with glee at the thought of the evil Chinese committing a genocide, they actively want China to be doing horrible things, so they can justify their own blind hatred and racism.
Oh I get it. Different situation about Palestine then. Good luck navigating this then. To me it’s already really hard facing the generalized hatred of China. It’s like I can never take a breather, even surrounded by leftists or “socialists”/“communists” (happened yesterday again), it’s really painful and tiring, and I’ve only been back here for a month (from a 3-month trip to China mind you)
So in Australia and the US I understand it could be extremely challenging
just today I had someone send me the new ethnic unity law to say “see China is forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities to learn mandarin” and compared it to the genocide of Armenians and persecution of LGBTQ people. this is a white USian so we know they really care about ethnic minorities