I literally just said that part of my nuanced take is: "I would fight against a US imperial attack (militarily, economically, or otherwise) on China." And "The US getting involved sure wouldn't help anything."
But OK.
The discussion around China's treatment of Uygurs is always so unnuanced to me.
All of the arguments I see read like there are only two options:
- China is a villain and needs to be stopped.
- China has not and never will do anything wrong. Your criticisms are orchestrated by the CIA.
I tend to believe all of the following can be true at the same time:
- The US is imperialist and the Biden administration is going hard against China
- China is not a utopia and has a number of areas where they could improve
- A lot of what the US is pushing in regards to the Uyghurs is filtered through a propaganda machine bent on helping their imperial goals
- Some of the Uyghurs have made public claims of oppression by China
- As an anarchist I believe in working toward ending oppression and I stand in solidarity with people's struggles against oppression
- As an anarchist I would fight against a US imperial attack (militarily, economically, or otherwise) on China
- As an anarchist in the US pretty much all of my organizing is focused on oppression here and not in other countries
- My actions in solidarity with the Uyghurs are pretty much saying things like "I hope the Uyghurs find liberation in China, but the US getting involved sure wouldn't help anything"
I believe that nothing is beyond criticism, including (and especially) myself, just because there is a worse evil out there. If that's what you believe, then cool I guess. Just please be consistent and stop criticizing me (an anarchist who is post-civ and believes fighting the West is important) as I am a lesser evil relative to the West, and Western hegemony is the #1 enemy.