• ahornsirup
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    1 year ago

    The Uyghur genocide would be the most recent.

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t call that leftist, but more authoritarian.

      That said, do a subset of leftists have the weirdest obsession for defending it because they somehow view China as leftist? Yes.

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        1 year ago

        They’re not mutually exclusive. To give another example, Cuba is unquestionably leftist but it’s also a dictatorship.