Canada

Canada is just as bad, and not just the basic stuff like poisoning their drinking water and the state stealing children. Ask an old first nations person to tell you about the history, things like starlight tours and child abduction that make it into the official narrative is just the tip of the ice burg.

But Canada or Europe pressuring America would be completely different, since Canada or Europe aren’t using it to make their population more accepting of sanctions, bombing, or invasion of America.

We’re pretty powerless against our government

That’s true, but we’re infinitely less influential of other governments. Mohammed Mokhber isn’t gonna log on, see americans furious with the Iranian government’s treatment of gay people and say “Oh shit gays are just as deserving of human rights”, nor will Biden read it and announce all gay Iranians are eligible for asylum. Rather Americans log in, go “look at those barbarians”, and support sanctions, bombing, and invasion.

The same mechanism is why media outlets that support the the genocide of Gaza also run articles decrying the plight of gay people in Gaza.

Yeah no maybe do some introspection if the misanthropic eugenics movie seems relatable.

Do it again and you’re going to Ohio.

2 reasons:

1. The reletive silence suggests most people who talk about minority rights in China don’t actually care about minorities rights, because I see >100 “but what about the uhigars or women in Iran” or w/e for every post about the poisoning of Hawaiian or Dakota water.

2. We can actually have positive impacts on native Americans, when it comes to minorities in enemies of America, it’s just carrying water for hostile action that hurt those people as much as anyone else. A productive context for that discussion wouldn’t involve Americans.

Same when articles trot out LGBT rights in Gaza or Iran or Russia as if those groups don’t suffer from hunger and lack of medicine due to western sanctions.

They should learn both. But as an American, it’s laughable for me to have an opinion on the matter given the way indigenous people are treated here.

It’s fitting that the liberal paper of record supported every single war the US has been in, opposed MLK when he was marching, promoted the whole “crack babies pre-disposed to crime” horseshit in the 90s, but evolved to take the correct side that <insert war> was bad, MLK was good (but civil rights is over, these new guys need to shut up), etc 5 years after it mattered.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3100112/inner-mongolia-doubles-down-chinas-plan-teach-key-subjects

The regional government announced last week that primary and secondary schools that originally taught in the Mongolian language would shift to Mandarin to teach three core subjects: literature, ethics and history

Turns out it’s hard to teach Chinese literature, ethics, and history when you can’t interact with the primary sources.

What country? Surely you don’t mean Canada where native schools teach in english?

From what I understand, Starmer’s labor isn’t exactly reversing it, anymore than Biden reversed the resurgence of far-right politics in the US or Blairite Labor did during the 2000s.

Eradicating local culture in Tibet and Xinjiang

Except they still have their culture. We know what eradication of a culture looks like, it looks like schools that ban the use of native languages, instead of teach in them.

~98% of Tibetans speak a Tibetan language.

Enforcing Mandarin

Everyone in China learns Mandarin in additional to their local language, how else are they supposed to communicate with people from other parts of China?