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This is obviously an over-the-top response. I quoted what you said:

> of course I wouldn't be onboard with whoever is committing a genocide

And asked if you were familiar with these particular atrocities. These particular atrocities are fairly different from the American/Mexican border in enough ways that your conflation is fairly bizarre (is there forced sterilization at the US Mexico border? What about forced labor? Or do you consider those to be unfounded claims that I would only believe because I'm an American?)

Tbh mostly the US and their allies seem to prefer not talking about the Uyghurs. And, I mean, what is the US supposed to do about it, anyway? (Contrast this with Israel/Palestine where the US continues to arm Israel with relatively few conditions on the usage of those weapons)

I am curious how you think the US should handle its southern border? My understanding is most European nations similarly struggle with large influxes of refugees. This is a global crisis, and you have actual data about it because the US doesn't kill journalists who research it.

I'm not saying "America shouldn't trade with China because of what's going on within their borders." (We are a huge trade partner with China. We were a huge trade partner with Russia before they invaded Ukraine)

I do think it's reasonable for America to ban TikTok.



> This is obviously an over-the-top response.

I'm sorry, I thought we were having a conversation.

> is there forced sterilization at the US Mexico border?

check (it's still happening, we are simply not talking about it)

https://theconversation.com/forced-sterilization-policies-in...

> What about forced labor?

check

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/07/24/forced...

Now let's talk about segregation and eugenics politics that inspired the Hitler third reich and went on until the 1970s and are having a come back now with the resurgence of neo confederated ideologies and literally the KKK .

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-kkk-today/

Guess where it all happens?

a place with the largest incarcerated population of the world where the police is as brutal as in some developing country where the mob and drug cartels rule and where people shoot at each other at the same rate of countries at war.

For comparison in USA there are every year 20 thousands intentional homicides, while in China they are 7 thousand, but China has almost 4 times the population of the USA.

Would you use an app coming from such a place?

> And asked if you were familiar with these particular atrocities

It's not a genocide.

> I do think it's reasonable for America to ban TikTok.

I do also think it's reasonable for China to ban US social networks and Europe should do the same thing.

The World should do the same thing.




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