• Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    6 months ago

    I don’t know much about Xi, but he isn’t currently engaged in a genocide, so he pretty much has to be better than Biden, right? It’s currently an extremely low bar.

    • 5in1k
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      6 months ago

      But he is genociding the Uyghurs though and what about Tibet and the threats to Taiwan?

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        There’s a hell of a lot more Tibetans who speak Tibetan and Uyghurs who speak Uyghur than Hawaiians who speak Hawaiian.

        I mean some will make the argument that Tibetan culture was destroyed by the secularization of their school system and removing the lamas from power, but those people are defending a theocracy that practiced slavery.

        • 5in1k
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 months ago

          Your whataboutism is great and all but doesn’t change the reality of China.

          • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            6 months ago

            My point is that we can look at genocides to understand what they look like. You don’t see a 75 year life expectancy during a genocide.

      • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        Not a great situation, sure, but it’s not genocide. Most of the fuss over it turned out to be made up by far right extremists such as Adrian Zenz.