• bloodfart
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      3 months ago

      You don’t need to pretend.

      Weather the Chinese government exerts any control over speech about tiannamen is immaterial to the false, sinophobic claim that Chinese people can’t talk about it.

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              3 months ago

              Responding to me like a significant other after a whole conversation filled with every kind of manipulation and misdirection imaginable probably isn’t the flex you think it is.

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                3 months ago

                Trying to act like you’re suddenly good faith when you’ve been acting the way you have is probably not the flex you think it is either.

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                  3 months ago

                  You said you wouldn’t accept Chinese people speaking in their own words about tiannamen as proof that Chinese people can talk about tiannamen and subsequently claimed that you were no more (at the very least) chauvinist for this than anyone else.

                  I can think of no clearer example of bad faith action than your own behavior, especially weighed against my own feather of refusing to get bogged down in big walls of text which manipulate and change my own words to support yours.

                  If you want to talk about government repression of speech then do so. I asked some questions, you can respond to them.

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                    3 months ago

                    Why would I bother answering any of your questions after you spent days ignoring mine? Why should I bother building an argument when you never presented a coherent one yourself?

                    You made a claim you refused to support and ignored analogies for, you shifted the goalpost to something entirely different, and now you claim to want a good faith discussion. You never did. You wanted to make your ridiculous claim about government criticism being somehow racist because you have to find some way to support an authoritarian government you like because the sole party with power is using communist in their name. You don’t have a consistent world view and just want to find a way to excuse the unexcusable actions of a tyrannical government you wouldn’t hesitate to call out of the were in the west.

                    You don’t have any high grounds in this conversation.