• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    What makes you think that USA is relevant here? I am not from USA. USA is not a part of China, nor the other way around.

    My point was that any specific economic policy or government style does not necessarily dictate the outcomes of the people it is in charge of. If this is similar to your belief, then I would question why you elected to make a statement that seemed to limit itself to a binary of fascist/“tankies”.

    1/6 on camps is a LOT. It does fulfill the definition of genocide.

    Again, that is using the most hyperbolic estimate. Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide. It’s definitely not great, and is systemic ethnic prejudice, but I don’t know if that would qualify as a genocide.

    The US put 80% of Japanese Americans in interment camps during ww2 and I’ve never heard that referenced as a genocide.

    What makes you think that USA is relevant here? I am not from USA. USA is not a part of China, nor the other way around.

    I think I explained in the last paragraph of my original argument that it was to provide relevant comparison of similar examples that were not fascist nor “tankies”.

    In your claim you said that you shouldn’t be a tankie because it led to bad/evil results. Would you also claim you shouldn’t be a liberal democracy because it leads to bad/evil results?

    Show me a democratic country where this happens. You’re giving me China and USA. And there’s also the Russia.

    First of all…how is the US not a democratic country? It may not be a great one, but it still has free and fair elections. If the US is not a liberal democracy… What is it?

    Secondly, there have been plenty examples of democratic countries having unjustifiable foreign and domestic policies.

    Just off the top of my head Canada has a brutal history of suppressing their native inhabitants that endures to the modern age. Both france and the UK also had interment camps during ww2. The UK committed a genocidal famine against ireland and Bengal as a democratic nation. Most of the worst aspects of colonialism were conducted after European powers transitioned out of absolute monarchies into democracies. South Africa and Israel both conducted an apartheid state in modern times, one going further into a genocide of Palestinians.

    And more than likely the nation you currently live in has materially or militarily aided the US in one of their unjustifiable wars in the middle East.