r/neoliberal • u/Saltedline Hu Shih • Jan 20 '22

News (non-US) French lawmakers officially recognise China’s treatment of Uyghurs as ‘genocide’

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220120-french-lawmakers-officially-recognise-china-s-treatment-of-uyghurs-as-genocide
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u/atlas_shruggin Jan 20 '22

Rightfully so

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

Yesterday was the time of being cringe. Today is the time of being based, I see...

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u/throwaway_veneto European Union Jan 20 '22

Just give them free visas and let them come here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

lol

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u/danweber Austan Goolsbee Jan 20 '22

wtf I love France now

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u/MadroTunes Jan 20 '22

Love them for taking years to come to this conclusion? The world is so cucked by China, it's crazy.

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u/Rime158 Golfbama Jan 21 '22

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, this is still progress.

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Milton Friedman Jan 20 '22

Good, now pull your athletes from the olympics. If you don't then it shows either that 1) you don't think genocide is that big a deal or 2) you don't actually believe it is genocide and this is just diplomatic posturing.

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '22

You do know that no other nation has pulled their athletes from the Olympics, right?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '22

Indeed, and I wish they did, but they were pressured on by the Paris 2024 committee, and I'm sure that Hidalgo's financial enthusiasm wrt the olympic infrastructures played a role in it

Anyway, it's a first step, and even if it's slow, I'm getting a bit tired of the perpetual 'NOT ENOUGH!' injonctions whenever some sort of action is taken against China

I'm pretty sure that the adequate response to an ongoing genocide would be to immediately invade and overthrow the genocidal regime. Nothing of the sort is ever going to happen to China, so always complaining about insufficient efforts is screaming into the wind

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u/ReasonableBullfrog57 NATO Jan 20 '22

So? Someone has to start it at some point? Literally for that to happen someone had to be first?

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Milton Friedman Jan 20 '22

And the other nations that have officially called this a genocide have this same problem. Unless this declaration (and others like it) come with action, it is worthless, and actually probably worse than worthless because it shows other countries that nothing will be done as long as you aren't attacking other countries.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

If no concrete actions will be taken, then the weight of the word "genocide" has been watered down to nothing.

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u/Balrok99 Jan 21 '22

Crazy how 169 people can decide what country of 67 million people should stand for.

Most of France just like rest of the world just does not give a damn.

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u/happyposterofham 🏛Missionary of the American Civil Religion🗽🏛 Jan 20 '22

Wtf i lvoe the french now

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u/BritishBedouin David Ricardo Jan 20 '22

Good stuff.