The Chinese government is evil, and one of the few things the Trump Adminstration has done right (however ham-handedly) is to demonize it. Unfortunately this leads a lot of otherwise reflective people to assume that must be wrong or racist by association with his other policies
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You can be skeptical of the tactics and motives of the American right, but you must not turn away from the genocidal policy in Xinjiang and the repression all across China, because the people there need the free(r) world to speak out for them.
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But this is not a subtle issue, or some moral conundrum you can NPR your way out of. Real antifa fights the Chinese Communist Party, and that means occasionally having to swallow bitter pills like agreeing with Pompeo on something.
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It just leaves us with the question what are we going to do about it? I believe both that the Soviet Empire was a real threat and also that most of America's cold war actions were counter productive.
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I agree with you. It's a much harder question. But starting from the right moral analysis is important, even if we're limited in what we can do. Reagan was ridiculed for his simplistic stance on the Soviet Union, but it thrilled a lot of people captive to that regime.
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