#Xi is well aware of this and so is his Israeli counterparts

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And in point of fact I'm going to be still more blunt. You can support China's treatment of Uighurs or Palestinians but not both:

If you can see through the self-serving justifications of Israel for deploying the IDF every time Palestinians start shooting at Israelis whenever they get fed up enough with their mistreatment to go for their first and always favored method of expressing that disagreement, you should not find it in you to believe Beijing when it proclaims those 're-education camps' for 'terrorists' in Uighurstan are anything but what they are.

If you don't believe me, pay attention to WHY China and Russia vote with Israel all the time on Israel and Palestine. They know damned well that if Palestinians get anything their own minorities will start demanding it from them next and follow the Palestinian precedent to get very heavily armed and unleash brutality on a grand scale.

Beijing itself knows this, this is why it does what it does, in the ways that it does. And yet too many white Westerners who otherwise see Islam as a medieval religion of fanatics who stone women to death for showing ankles and bay and howl the name 'Muhammad' before unleashing the savage wars of peace suddenly find it in them to pretend they see the Palestinian Islamists as human beings while simultaneously claiming Beijing's view of Uighurs as a mass cultural Al-Qaeda are convincing.

Not how it works. There is nothing especially unique about Palestinians or Palestinian Islam unlike all the other Islams. If you see them as human then the Rohingya and the Uighurs deserve concern, too.

#lightdancer comments on geopolitics #selective empathy #why do palestinians get the lion's share of attention relative to literally everything else going on? #actual Palestinians have every excuse in the world to think this way #people who claim to support Muslims as human and use it as a means to hate Jewish people OTOH #because let's be blunt here the reality is that Uighurstan deserves as much focus as Palestine #the situations are not as different as Israel and China would like to think they are #Xi is well aware of this and so is his Israeli counterparts #no people cannot hold focus on everything all the time equally #but that's also proving a point #you will see dozens of posts about Palestinians and most of the Western commentary on Uighurstan well.... #it repeats Chinese propaganda in a way it will never do that of Tel Aviv #And it will never ask itself why #uighurstan #chinese genocide of uighurs