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Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish
I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried
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it strikes me as an incredible, personal political failing to mistake "critical support" (the most you should really be doing here) with "actual support"
I think this is exactly what's happening, and it's a problem you see in communists throughout the 20th century as well. It's definitely worse now though, you see the same people defending modern Russia and Iran...
I feel like the closest I get to that is pushing back when conservative or centrist types try to paint China and Chinese people as, like, living under a monolithic 1984 totalitarianism. I think a lot of that tends to stem from bad understanding of communism, orientalism, and propaganda trying to drum up some sort of Yellow Peril Cold War. But yeah, I don't think we have to treat it as a communist utopia under-siege, or justify the bad shit the country does.
That said, I could probably stand to do more research on present day China and Chinese society.
Yeeeeah, I knew a leftist furry a while back who randomly decided to support China and Russia (while Russia was already invading Ukraine) because they're "anti american imperialism" while refusing to acknowledge the imperialism of those countries and I never could wrap my head around that.
What gets me about the mindset of that type of person is Russia and China aren't even denying their imperialism??? It's very overt actually?? Part of me wonders if they're like, "well, the US denies their imperialism but is imperialist so everything just works on Opposite Day rules" because otherwise HUH?? (To be clear, if that really was why they believed that I would still say HUH??)
it's only imperialism if it comes from the Washington region of America, otherwise it's just sparkling nationalism
the last time I got into a political argument along these lines, one of these self-described leftists accused me of only disapproving of the current Chinese and North Korean governments because I was racist against Asians
just a bunch of entirely unserious people
