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by zombieprocesses 3028 days ago
> we feel like we cannot change anything about China and how it governs its people

Who are we to change anything about china? Talk about hubris. Considering the horrors and war crimes we committed against china for 150 years, I don't think china is interested on our input.

> After reading about the uigher concentration camps in China

That's as silly as a chinese person saying after reading about the native american "concentrations", they need to take a stand.

> I don’t want to help the government terrorize my friends in China anymore.

Your friends? If the government is "terrorizing" your friends, what are they doing in china?

Get off your high horse. We aren't the world police and we certainly aren't saints. Pretending we are "moral" while destabilizing countries and murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people is rather hypocritical.

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> Native American > 150 years ago

Are you seriously whataboutism events from a few hundred years ago? Wow. Just wow.

People in China cannot speak. We have to speak for them somehow. Here is a snippet from a reddit post from a student in China.

“ It's been 4 days now. I look around, everything looks the same, but I know, it's not the same world anymore. He choose to become a dictator officially maybe means nothing to most foreigners, but as a Chinese born and raised in this land, I know it's just the beginning of a series following "1984" episodes, and maybe even worse: Cultural Revolution 2.0. This may not happend in 10 years, but I live here, we live here, someday, something very bad is gonna happen again, and I can't do anything to stop or evade it.

A lot people around me seems calm and quite. Maybe they already learned to "shut up and having fun while you still can", or, maybe they are just like me: too shocked and depressed to think of anything to comment. I feel so helpless and scaried, it's like, how do I put this? sitting in a biulding which is on fire, you watch the black smokes and red flame coming from the bottom, but you can't find a way out of your room, there isn't any extinguisher in the room neither. All you can do is just sitting in the corner, hugging yourself tight, waiting for that momnent to come, in despair and silence.

sorry my English sucks, I tried my best to write in English. As a native Chinese, I can't stop to feel pessimistic about the future, hell, now I know we are doomed, it'll be easier to suffer if just push me off the building instead of letting me watch it burning for decades.“

Here is another post

“’m studying in a university in China rn and holy fuck I thought I entered an alternate reality, my classmates were all talking and worrying about the issue on the internet few days ago before they were censored out but after that , no one dares to talk about it in the campus , it’s dead silence , I KNOW everyone cares but everyone is just so afraid , this is pretty much a 1984 scenario in real life and I don’t know what else can we do. I guess they have already won in this point . :(”

>Are you seriously whataboutism events from a few hundred years ago? Wow. Just wow.

Try a few decades.

> People in China cannot speak. We have to speak for them somehow.

Goodness.

> Here is a snippet from a reddit post from a student in China.

You mean the website full of russian, chinese, european and american propagandists where you can't take anything seriously? Where anyone can pretend to be anything and lie all day long? Did you write that reddit comment?

> sorry my English sucks

Going through your comment history, your english is fine. I don't know why you are pretending and faking as if your english sucks.

> I tried my best to write in English. As a native Chinese,

I thought native chinese couldn't speak? "People in China cannot speak. We have to speak for them somehow. "

> I can't stop to feel pessimistic about the future, hell, now I know we are doomed, it'll be easier to suffer if just push me off the building instead of letting me watch it burning for decades.

Is this for real? Are you gordon chang?