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I'm not interested in having the fight you're trying to have. stop trying to have that fight with me.
no one in the image referenced (it's in the modlog, go look.) is "disagreeing with the chinese governments position", they're saying chinese people can't talk about tiannamen square. that statement is patently false and reifies a set of assumptions that are racist.
broadly, when a person makes racist remarks against chinese people its called sinophobia.
I would call it sinophobia.
Repeating the same statement doesn't make it true.
I’m not repeating myself as some eldritch truth summoning tankie incantation but to bring us back on track.
The post I repeated myself in response to is one in which you build a fascinating argument against something that was not ever said or hinted at as far as I can tell.
Rather than get embroiled in the fight you seem to want to have, I’m trying to keep things on topic.
Why not take a look?
Is the original claim that people can't talk about TS because the government won't let them or that people can't talk about for some other reason?
The statement "people cant talk about TS" is a statement about the government's actions to discourage discussion about it.
You keep repeating the same thing while ignoring that the claim is about government action.