This is a likely scenario in the second round according to polls.
The election is in 10 days.
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Are you claiming tankie is a slur?? Seems real insensitive towards actually marginalized people
You can admire their public transport without supporting the government, what are you on about? "Since I'm anti-car I have to support the persecution of Uyghurs"
Yes, I claim it's a left-punching slur (no other political position is referred to by weaponry). We don't call anarchists "bombies" despite the history of terrorism, we don't call libs "dronies" for drone striking the middle east... Even Nazis have the luxury of being referred to by a shortening of their profesded ideology (national socialism). And sure, communists are famously never marginalized, Thomas Sankara wasn't murdered, neither was Huey P. Newton, nor Patrice Lumumba, nor Che Guevara, nor Rosa Luxembourg, nor Karl Liebknecht, nor many other communists. Communists are never slandered, never kicked off their jobs for being communist, and are always given air time to express their opinion and never murdered /s.
When you talk about urban mobility in Paris, do you make it a point to mention the pinned Paris-controlled currency in 10+ African countries thst legitimizes and continues neocolonialism by France? Do you discuss the extreme exclusion and segregation of blacks and Arabs in Paris, leading to much higher poverty and criminality rates? No, because this is a community about urban transit and modes of transportation, in which you can definitely support the Dutch and the Chinese model.
Also, if you still believe in the "Uyghur genocide" CIA propaganda a full 7 years after the reeducation camps have been closed (per Washington Post), you run into the risk of looking like someone who doesn't actually give one single fuck about Uyghurs, their culture or their well being and only uses them as a political weapon to hate on a country that their government tells them to hate. I beg you, bring me one independent journalistic report with photographic or video evidence of widespread repression of Uyghurs post-2021, ONE. I've asked for this a million times to libs like you who concern-troll using the lives of the Uyghurs without actually knowing one single thing about them, nobody has provided anything so far.
It's a useful shorthand, not a slur. +1 for calling libs "dronies" though, that's hilarious
Again, you can admire their public transport without supporting the government, what are you on about? Why are you trying to link 2 unrelated things even harder now?
Interesting info in that article though. According to it, they've transitioned from putting uyghur in camps to putting them in prisons which doesn't seem better to me
I would argue that demeaning shorthand expressions used in a negative connotation against people who have been systematically discriminated, imprisoned or even assassinated, is an appropriate descriptor of a slur. Communism has been seriously repressed, from "milder" forms like McCarthyism in the US purging communists from all public life and condemning them to unemployment, to more direct methods such as literal extermination through forced labor and murder as in my homeland of Spain. All Marxists from Spain were either murdered or had to emigrate to Mexico or the USSR during the 1930s.
Exactly my point, and the reason for my original comment.
Not really. They're documenting the existence of prisons in Xinjiang, but there's absolutely no evidence of mass imprisonment of Uyghurs based on their ethnicity or religion or any other grounds. Prisons exist in all countries, not exclusively in China, and China doesn't have particularly high rates of imprisonment compared to countries like the US.