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LostYonder wrote

Reply to comment by mofongo in Has the world abandoned the Uighur Muslims? by An_Old_Big_Tree

Yes, on the superficial opinion-making level, that is the fall back response, we can't be too critical of China. But the same thing is happening to the Rohingya in Myanmar and no one is doing anything, except turning away the refugees fleeing the genocidal violence and Myanmar is not a nuclear and economic powerhouse.

The one thing the Uighur and the Rohingya have in common - they are Muslim minority populations. Yemen? who gives a shit? Syria? nobody really cares anymore. Afghanistan? What's that? Iraq? they are evil. Palestine? they are terrorists. and on and on...

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existential1 wrote

I'd like to say that the Muslim coincidence is the main factor, but I think history would show that it is not. As long as your people are not considered of white European heritage & christian, nobody will give a fuck about you at all.

It's been that way around the world several times over. Only exceptions for economic interests and in that case the people are used as a pretext for war.

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