• Aatube
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    11 year ago

    Let’s put it this way: Just because they live under an oppressive regime doesn’t mean we should be mean to them and keep them isolated in their evil bubble.

    • FarraigePlaisteach
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      11 year ago

      It’s not being mean to them. Calling them names or something would be mean.

      And they are not oppressed. Oppressed people don’t have choices.

      • Aatube
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        11 year ago

        Say, many would agree that Han people in China are oppressed. They have a ton of middle-class citizens who are free to leave the country, they just don’t want to permanently due to not thinking it’d be better.

        Same applies to Threads, though maybe a stronger case for leaving.

        • FarraigePlaisteach
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          11 year ago

          I’m not having a conversation that compares people signing up to their favourite social media channel with people who suffer systemic discrimination every day in their lives.

          • Aatube
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            11 year ago

            Han people are the main ethnicity of China; they aren’t the Uyghurs, if that’s what you mean