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  • While Republicans’ strident opposition to Palestinian statehood is clearly rooted in bigotry, the Democratic leadership’s role is more like that of the “white moderate” described in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” who professes to support the goals but not the methods, who insists on endless negotiations with oppressors who refuse to compromise, and who “believes he can set the timetable for [someone else]’s freedom.”

    “The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative.”
    - Malcolm X






  • Arelin@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.worldLemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024)
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    7 months ago

    Well yeah? The only countries accusing China of mishandling the ETIM in Xinjiang (an issue created by the US through Afganistan btw) are the ones committing an actual genocide in Palestine, i.e imperial core countries. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Global South and Muslim countries in general are against the western propaganda about it.

    20 . Welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat’s delegation upon invitation from the People’s Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People’s Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People’s Republic of China.







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    If they were popular, they wouldn’t have needed China

    Why wouldn’t commoners in a feudal slave state not want help from a nearby government whose views match their own?

    just like the US supported revolutionaries that overthrew their governments

    The US overthrew democratically elected popular governments, like Mosaddegh’s in Iran, or Salvador Allende’s in Iraq, replacing the latter with a military dictatorship, because their policies benefitted their own countries instead of the US.

    Their are no us military bases in Iraq and all the oil money goes to Iraq.

    …What? There are still military bases in Iraq even now, and the economic dependence on the US that Iraq is now in is exactly what the US wanted/wants. ExxonMobil, Chevron etc. extracting oil for cheap from a war-torn country that doesn’t have a choice; even CNN admits it.


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    China invaded and annexed them.

    Again, the popular Tibetan revolutionary party fought the feudal rule and welcomed Chinese intervention; their views were in line with the rest of China, and the autonomous nature of the region while being part of China reflects that.

    the US invasion of Iraq

    Not even comparable. There were no popular pro-US movements fighting Saddam’s rule, and Iraq was destabilized in the first place because of US sanctions, not Saddam’s decisions unlike the feudalism in Tibet. This was purely a strategic invasion to set up military bases and secure oil and resources by making up false claims of WMDs.



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    I don’t think they’re pro-Putin? Seem to be as much against Russian imperialism and capitalism as they are against US’s.

    Edit: Lmao one of the first comments I saw on there:

    Putin will be a narcissistic fence sitter who abuses power for his own ends

    So yeah, not very “pro-Putin”