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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/356919 > >‘*Omar al-Mokhtar is considered the great symbol for the Libyan resistance (Jihad) against the Italian occupation. In 1922 he reorganized the Mojahideen and re-ignited the resistance against Italy after World War I when the [Fascists] thought that they succeeded in silencing the Libyan resistance. Omar Al-Mokhtar was ill [a] couple of times and many of his comrades asked him to retire and leave the country; he was [nearly] 80 years old. But he refused and kept fighting and he deserved a name given to him as “The Lion of the Desert.” On 16 September, 1931 the [Fascists] hanged Omar Al-Mokhtar in the city of Solouq and they forced the Libyans to watch their hero be hanged. [No consideration to Omar Al-Mokhtar's old age, no consideration to international law and no consideration to world war treaties.](https://web.archive.org/web/20191105000003/http://www.libyanet.com/omar001.htm)*’ > > ([Source.](https://archive.is/20121216130041/permai1.tripod.com/umar.html) Note that the ‘Mojahideen’ is not to be confused with the unrelated Afghan mujahideen.) > > As paraphrased in the dramatization [*Lion of the Desert*](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4qhHpfHgyUU), to General Rodolfo Graziani: > > >‘*We will never surrender. We win, or we die. […] You will have the next generation to fight, and after the next, the next. As for me, I will live longer than my hangman.*’ > > — Omar al-Mukhtar (1862–1931)
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There's a problem in this is that there is an easy trick you can play with this logic whereby anyone you don't wish to tolerate needs only to be accused of intolerance first.
Rather, the measure for tolerating something or not should not depend on whether it is tolerant or not. Rather it should be based on whether or not it is tolerable, which obviously is not the same thing.
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Also, critically, the majority of Mainland Chinese people (as surveyed by Western organisations like Harvard), support the CPC
This information would have been useful if people in China were not forbidden from not supporting it.
Therefore, one, the Chinese people in China don’t want or need your white saviour complex.
So then why would they need a communist party, which brings the message of salvation from a white European man? You call that representing Chinese values?
Two, this notion that the people and the government exist as separate, independent entities where you can hate one and love the other, is entirely nonsensical.
People everywhere in the world hate their governments. That's quite normal. In the USA there are people who hate the US government but it doesn't mean they hate themselves. A government is not this kind of sacrosanct symbol or representation of the nation as you are claiming, unless you believe in fascism where the state is supposedly this kind of unquestionable embodiment. In the USA that notion of, "If you question the government you hate America," was held very strongly by the far-right. I would say it's a far-right value.
In any case, well-off people who sit atop a powerful and wealthy state are not in the same class as the working poor. Xi Jinping doesn't work. He's just a wealthy politician. His wealth is supported by the impoverished Chinese who sleep in the factories where they work. Then you tell me, that I must love the CPC in order to love China? No thanks. China existed for thousands of years without it and will in the future will continue to do so.
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This graphic is extremely misleading. I wonder, did you even read it before posting it? It only gives five examples, all of which are invalid. There are four examples of racism not at all related to political opposition to the Chinese communist party, and the fifth one is political but not racist. For most of them the PRC did not even exist at that time.
This is a strange and illogical presentation. Whoever made this was just begging for a conclusion they had no evidence for.
If you just want to say, "Oh there's a history of racism against Chinese", yes that's true, but stop using that as an excuse for silencing legitimate criticism of bad policies. It's only convenient and useful for you to talk about racism against Chinese, but you don't say anything about when people in China are racist themselves.
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I feel like they'd probably know a little more if they had one
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Disagreeing with the policies of China's government is not "sinophobia" I can't believe how stupid anyone could be to actually believe such a thing. You cry about bigotry but your own posts are just full of it. It's a poor excuse for moderation, and it really is just an excuse to silence people who don't play along with your fairy tale communism. You talk about narcissism yet you only seek to create an echo chamber for your extreme and inaccurate views.
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It's so bizarre to see someone make such a brazenly false and inaccurate rationalization for what's going on, but I guess these are the stories you tell to comfort yourself. The only people who "couldn't stand to be disagreed with" are the admins who remove and ban content that they dislike. It's nothing more than that, otherwise most of us would stay on these instances in spite of the presence of obnoxious and toxic western leftists. Most of us who fled are not liberals but all you guys do is straw man and say every thing you don't like is liberal. If you cared about education so much you'd start with yourself. The issue was never "free speech" but bad moderation. That's just another ridiculous straw man.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/429490 > -Two large tsps of instant coffee > -Dissolve with hot water in the bottom of the cup > -Stir, add milk > -Put ice in glass, move coffee to your glass > > Cheaper than Starbucks > I'm gonna try this with ground coffee and different types of milk. Overall the coffee sets the taste and intensity while the milk sets the texture of the coffee. > (Make coffee in a cup then move it to a glass when milk is added to avoid breaking the glass)
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Russia being salty again
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Tiu ĉi komunumo translokiĝis al [!esperanto@sopuli.xyz](https://sopuli.xyz/c/esperanto)
Welcome to our wonderful little community. Please join the Matrix chat because it's very active and welcoming.
I've officially created a geopolitical discussion group on Matrix. I would like to affiliate it with this Lemmy community.
There are some problems with the title and description of this community. First of all, Kashmir is not a part of India, so the Indian flag should not be displayed in the title. Second, the description falsely claims that Free Kashmir is "occupied" by Pakistan, when in fact it is India that is occupying Kashmir. India's occupation is violent and has made Kashmir one of the most heavily militarized zones in the world.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/82155 > Toki! > > I started a chat room for anyone here using XMPP. All of the offical toki pona chats and forums are on platforms I don't care to use, so I thought I would create a room for anyone else in my shoes. > > [tomo laso](xmpp:toki@inn.treeblue.space?join) > > Drop on by! I am new to toki pona myself, and the room is young and quiet. Feel free to come make some noise :)
I read in the news that Peter Bourgon was officially excommunicated from Go "community spaces". I'm curious if this community space, [!golang@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/golang), plans to comply with the ban. I think it would be useful to identify and support spaces that will not carry it out.
Recently [room-announcement@chat.disroot.org](xmpp:room-announcement@chat.disroot.org?join) was created in order to announce rooms on XMPP. I was thinking Lemmy might also be a good tool to use for something like this. The question is, should we use c/xmpp for this or create another community? In my opinion, the former seems more logical given the fact that announcements probably won't come often enough to warrant the creation of a separate community page, and this community already has a decent number of subscribers.
If you want you can use this image for the Lemmy community as well. There is a site that makes these for all country flags, and i prefer this version because compared to "flat" flag images, it's got a little bit of shading to make it visually pleasing. The file size is also impressively small.
Glad to see someone already created this sub. I hope it is managed well. I wanted to announce that I created the group "Free Palestine" on matrix.org Hopefully we can collaborate with this community.
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