• @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    12 months ago

    So are you a speech absolutist? You said authoritarian a bunch of times too, how are you defining that?

    • WhatTrees
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      12 months ago

      I don’t really understand your questions and am going to pretend they aren’t relevant so…

      • @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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        12 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.

              • @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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                12 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.

                • WhatTrees
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                  12 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.

                  • @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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                    12 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.