• zephyreks@lemmy.mlOP
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    Why should the Global South care? People are dying there, too. We have a spoiled Western perspective.

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      1 year ago

      For the same reason that the West should care about people being murdered around the world: it’s a human rights violation.

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          That’s completely misrepresenting what I’m saying. The very criticism against China that you are so against is the result of white people who care about Asian people.

          Yes, the West could and should do much better, and they are far from saints. But we’re not talking about what the West should or shouldn’t do. We’re talking about why China is being criticized.

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            Again, there’s a reason the Global South is aligned against the Global North on this issue, and it’s not because China has somehow bribed every country in the Global South.

            Ask yourself why that’s the case. Ask yourself why the Arab League unanimously supports China’s management of Xinjiang. Ask yourself why Muslim-dominated countries like Indonesia and Malaysia and Nepal are all overwhelmingly positive.

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              By “this issue” you mean the fact that Russia is murdering Ukranians and abducting their children? I don’t know what the management of Xinjiang has to do with that.

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                Oh no! People die in war? No way. The Global South hasn’t lived under decades of being told that Russia is literally going to end civilization with nuclear weapons. You don’t think that the opinion of the billions of people living outside the West matter?

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                  I have no idea how this comment is relevant to anything that we’ve talked about or what your point is. Of course I think the opinions of people living outside the West matter. You seem to be having imaginary arguments in your head that the rest of us aren’t privy to.

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                    Then why are you trodding on the opinion of the Global South, which has overwhelmingly decided that the issue in Ukraine is a regional issue and not worth getting worked up about?

                    The Global South is used to poorly-motivated conflicts, decades-long military occupations, and coups of democratically-elected officials. Hmm.