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World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre (www.theguardian.com)

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Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion

There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China’s People’s Liberation Army in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s central plaza, on 4 June 1989.

The date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, and the Chinese government employs extensive and increasingly sophisticated resources to censor any discussion or acknowledgment of it inside China. Internet censors scrub even the most obscure references to the date from online spaces, and activists in China are often put under increased surveillance or sent on enforced “holidays” away from Beijing.

New research from human rights workers has found that the sensitive date also sees heightened transnational repression of Chinese government critics overseas by the government and its proxies.

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[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I usually avoid commenting on your replies in other posts because it's a waste of time, but I'll make an exception here to demonstrate your complete lack of moral integrity.

sorry whatever is happening in Tibet is certainly awful

You should've stopped your comment here. This would've been a very principled position against genocides that would've demonstrated that you understood the point that I was making and you would've demonstrated that you have moral integrity. But then you decided to continue...

but it’s not carpet bombing civilians.

Now, your position is less principled because you're trying to turn genocides into some sort of competition. Instead of condemning them all outright out of principle, you're trying to determine which genocides better or worse than the others which not only demonstrates that you didn't understand my point, but it also shows that you care more about pushing your ideology than the actual genocides themselves. As bad as this is, at least you admit that what's happening in Tibet is still awful, you should've really stopped here, but of course you didn't...

Beside that whole Ukraine shit is instigated by the oligarchs from both side. Yeltsin was in Washington 3 days before the ussr coup. Putin is a corrupted capitalist cunt like von der leyen is a corrupted capitalist cunt

Why? Why would you say something so mind numbingly ignorant? If you are adamant about what Israel is doing in Gaza is a genocide regardless of nuance or context, one would think you would apply this standard consistently to other conflicts out of principle... yet you don't. If you wanted to argue that Gaza is worse than Tibet for the sake agenda pushing, fine, whatever, but this? This just shows that you have no principles, no morals, no values, no consistency, nothing.

The Ukraine war is the clearest and most clear cut example of genocide in the world today. Ukraine was attacked by Russia completely unprovoked, Russia has explicitly stated their goal is to erase Ukraine, they kidnapped over 700k children, they killed tens of thousands of civilians, they systematically razed a quarter of the country, and they have been intentionally trying to destroying civilian infrastructure for almost 4 years now. This is despite the West doing their best to buddy up to Russia even after they illegally invaded Georgia in 2008 and illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. One would think you would apply the same standard you have for Israel on Russia, but you don't. Now it's suddenly "both sides" and the fault isn't with the aggressor but with "capitalism", "Washington", "oligarchs"... even though there's less nuance and context necessary to understand this conflict. You're so slimy its gross.

[–] germanichwurst@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Don't worry the world will forget about Ukraine. The world has already moved on past Armenian genocide even though Turkey and the vast majority of Turks still deny the genocide, and some are even openly proud of it. The world has moved on from the Holocaust even though there are still soooo many genocide deniers everywhere. The world has moved on from the Yazidi genocide even though that has happened only 10 years ago and a lot of perpetrators are still running around today. Even now with what’s going on in Gaza, Myanmar, Tibet, Armenia, Kurdistan, Sudan, Yemen, people just move on with their lives. What makes you think that they don’t or that this will be different?

You're a piece of shit propping "the denmark model" of remigrating people to god knows where lmao you think you're a good person?

You're a weapon industry simp

[–] germanichwurst@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah i'm not reading your essay retard. Your country is complicit with a genocide and it's not the uygurs

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This is why I and most other users on this site actively avoid interacting with you. You're an illiterate moron who painfully ignorant with a stick up his ass. I'm done wasting my time on you, you're going to be ignored again.