“China is being shitty and authoritarian towards the Uyghurs, but it’s nothing like the genocide Israel is waging”, saying that Chinese influence in Myanmar is a more serious violation by the PRC than the Uyghur genocide is, and leveling a judgement of “PTB” - “Power Tripping Bastard” - towards the moderator of this comm for banning someone who was literally denying the Uyghur genocide.
Combined, that’s pretty distinctly defending Uyghur genocide denial, and I would say right up on the border of denying Uyghur genocide themselves.
If I said, “Israel is being shitty and authoritarian towards the Palestinians, but it’s nothing like the genocide the Nazis waged”, would you regard that as:
A. Borderline genocide denial of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by reducing the ongoing genocide to something that is simply ‘shitty and authoritarian’ while noting that ‘real’ genocide is more than that
OR
B. Just making casual comparisons
Furthermore, in a later comment, they go on to say that the Uyghur “genocide” (and they put genocide in quotes) is overblown and misrepresented by the West, and further opine that critical support for the PRC doesn’t make one a tankie.
What’s more, one of the active comments in the thread calls the Uyghur genocide an ‘Atlanticist hoax’ and remains up (an .ml comment whose votes cannot be checked, but sadly I would not be surprised if one or all three admins upvoted it), as does a denial of the Holodomor, despite three DB0 admins being active in that thread since, including both mods of the comm.
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Both DB0 and Fxomt are aware of these statements and, in fact, upvoted them.
Considering that they’ve left Holodomor denial up in the thread, I wouldn’t count on them suddenly becoming anti-genocide.
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Furthermore, in a later comment, they go on to say that the Uyghur “genocide” (and they put genocide in quotes) is overblown and misrepresented by the West, and further opine that critical support for the PRC doesn’t make one a tankie.
What’s more, one of the active comments in the thread calls the Uyghur genocide an ‘Atlanticist hoax’ and remains up (an .ml comment whose votes cannot be checked, but sadly I would not be surprised if one or all three admins upvoted it), as does a denial of the Holodomor, despite three DB0 admins being active in that thread since, including both mods of the comm.