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It hasn’t. But letting terrible people have power affects the world in normalizing violence and hatred. It’s not about left or right, if they were American racists against Chinese people, I would have the exact same problem. I’m personally quite on the left, but without the hate.
I am living safe and not being targeted with hateful violence like the Uyghurs or North Koreans are, so this is far, far more important than what can affect me.
Sorry I don't want to turn this into a debate but I feel like you're being disingenious; black people are getting killed all around your country because of their skin colour, and you have private prisons that systematically exploit prison labour. How are the social, political, and cultural challenges for your country different than theirs? I live in a country the USA has deemed an autocracy, I'm not apart of the ruling class, but I am living safe and not being targeted with hateful violence. Likewise, are you ignorant to the plight of ethnic minorities in your country and the hateful violence they experience? It just seems so chauvanist of you to say that your country is superior than anothers because you have the privilege of being "safe".
I am not, I actually volunteer 5h a week to teach kids in underprivileged neighborhoods, in an attempt to reduce the racial gap in the United States. There are a lot of racial problems in the US, due to the botched Reconstruction of the 19th century; and I firmly agree that it’s our common responsibility that to act to remediate this. I think education is a powerful weapon to bring opportunities and safety, so that’s where my focus is.
I guess the difference between someone like the Lemmy devs and you, and someone like me, is that I’m fully aware there are problems everywhere, but I won’t automatically associate someone’s nationality/residency to those problems; only what those people explicitly say about it. I initially considered that the issues people were having with the Lemmy devs were because they were not being US-centric, until I was linked to their past hateful posts on Reddit. I can’t believe they actually took questions on r/AskATankie; before that I was annoyed that people were calling them “tankies” because it sounded like a slur, I had no idea they actually identified as such. It’s the same feeling I get when I see Americans carrying a Nazi flag or a Confederate flag. So disheartening.
It is convenient to think of the world as divided in nationalities, a lot of things would be simpler. You need to realize that it’s a bit more complicated than that. China has a lot of successful high-scale services, with TikTok, Weibo, Alibaba, etc. It would be excellent if, for instance, ownership of Lemmy moved to a Chinese engineer (or a team of Chinese engineers of course) who helped with scaling those; provided it’s not someone with hateful view who self-identifies as a tankie. It doesn’t sound like a lot to ask.
Wherever you live, I am glad you are personally safe. I mean it for real. It’s better if you do things around you for those who aren’t, but I don’t resent people who don’t, we all do what we can.