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Tedder130's avatar

There are a lot of smart people who are Marxist, communists, Buddhists, and so on. They point out that the so-called genocide of Uyghur Muslims is a propaganda ploy by the usual actors to manufacture consent for war on China. How is this even controversial?

Russians under the Czar persecuted Jews for many reasons. The USSR attempted to alter that practice, especially since many Party members were Jews. Nevertheless, there is a large Russian Jewish diaspora who will never forgive Russia for its past depredations.

And what in the world is "race communism"? The term itself is contradictory. It seems that due to over 100 years of elite propaganda, anything that is 'bad' is just called 'communist'.

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Frances Taylor's avatar

I’m talking about someone who specifically called themselves a communist. Not a theoretical example.

There are actual videos of people being held for trains to these “re-education camps” and eye witness testimony of these horrible re-education camps.

But no one gives a shit about the story from this minority group as long as it defends communism.

Gross... at least be open- minded about shit. Sitting there denying these people a voice when there is a mountain of evidence about the atrocities of human rights by the CCP - a) what they did to the HK protestors, b) what they did to the Tibetan Monks, c) Tianemen Square, d) anti-suicide nets in Shenzhen China.

Are all those stories fake too? Wtf?!

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Kathleen McCook's avatar

and the kulaks.

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Tedder130's avatar

I am not the one to educate you about the CPC; you need to do so yourself. But I can point out that all propaganda contains a kernel of truth. The propagandist elaborates and expands and distorts that truth for the aims of the rulers--whoever they are.

For example, the reality of Xinjiang stems from a terrorist group, the Al Qaeda linked East Turkestan separatists--funded by the CIA/NED/USAID spooks, a real problem that the CPC is trying to solve without murdering the population (as the US has done in the Middle East). Do not take this 'genocide' nonsense for gospel. There are other stories for Tibet, Hong Kong, and so on than is presented in US mainstream media.

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FNR's avatar

what does "the reality of Xinjiang stems from a..." mean?

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Tedder130's avatar

Google "East Turkestan separatism"

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FNR's avatar

and if it isn't defense of communism by silence, it is anti-USA by ignoring the kinds of things "those people" say (meaning, non-leftists).

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Sean Wieland's avatar

All the smart Marxists like James Burnham and Thomas Sowell came to reject Marxism as fashionable nonsense and murderous as an ideology.

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