My partner is Lebanese and one issue that has consistently come up with any discussion of Marxism (and honestly the online left as a whole) is Uyghur genocide denial. Essentially, they see it as proof of (white) western leftists being hypocrites and having a glaring Islamophobia problem. I’m inclined to defer to them, but at the same time, I’ve found myself often politically aligning with MLs on other issues, and I know very little about Chinese internal politics or the Uyghurs myself, so I would greatly appreciate being able to get an understanding of what the ML perspective is.

  • June@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 days ago

    Tell your partner straight-up that they have it backwards. Practically the entire Muslim world supports China’s policies in Xinjiang. The only people who seriously espouse the “genocide” lie are Westerners and fringe East Turkestani separatists. Parroting this is on the same level of insanity as whining about white genocide in South Africa.