"You're too much into politics"

Said by people who are unwilling to admit they're on the wrong side. Or in a more extreme setting (like say, South Africa during apartheid), they'd most likely report you to authorities or outright even kill you.

Literally anything regarding China, especially Xinjiang if you talk to anyone from

I was talking to a mate about Palestine and he immediately went for the "bUt TiAnAm3n SqU@r3 k1LLeD oVeR tEn Th0uSaNd" and the "Ch1n@ cEnOcIde iN UygHuRs Th0" with the swiftness of a 737 flying into the 2nd tower. They will disregard who originally makes these claims and are 100% unfazed by say, World Uyghur Congress being totally in support of the genocide in Gaza, the response being either dismissal or "you're too much into politics and also ableism".

Well, I'd certainly love to live in China instead of :estonia-burning:. You are more than welcome to hit me up with a one-way tho

When the Apartheid rule in South Africa ended, a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" was set up to prevent just this kind of retaliation from materializing. Even the Big Black Book of why Israel is peepeepoopoo according to South Africa that I have, even suggests also setting up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for this same reason for when Palestine is liberated.

However, you are more than likely engaging in a bad-faith argument, so...

"the Palestinian population has been increasing for decades."

Hasbara talking point detected.

but in the vast majority of cases Israeli operations don’t intend to harm civilians.

You mean like when apartment towers, hospitals, schools, water treatment plants, media offices, etc. in the Gaza Strip get leveled? Also, what are the Israeli secret service doing in the Oliver Tambo Airport all the way in Johannesburg for the past 15 years?

Clearly you don't understand what the term "apartheid" means, nor why Israel has been called an "apartheid" state for decades.

Also the irony of you telling two South Africans "that they have no clue what they're talking about".

You've been defending terrorists the whole time. Israel has never taken hostages like the Palestinians have. There's no end goal in these attacks. Whatever problems the Palestinians have will not be fixed by what they're doing.

I can change the place names in your quote a bit and you sound exactly like the typical boilerplate response of a 1970s-80s South African pro-Apartheid liberal whining about how "uMkontho we Sizwe is too violent". Just flatly admit that you support the Apartheid rule and the list of crimes perpetrated by the Israeli government.

u mad, settler?

Funny because of the dozens, if not hundreds, of death threats I've gotten, practically all of them come from zionists, NAFOs, keyboard nazis or the occasional trumpeteer.

Naturally, they will inevitably pin the blame on China so :germany-cool: can build more coal guilt-free

I suppose the parallels to this being a shitty plagiarized version of "Iraq WMDs" from 20 years ago, conveniently involving a Muslim-majority province of China with known oil reserves above that of Iraq, major BRI routes running through it, deposits of lithium and other minerals, ETIM and ISIS activity (and known US involvement) until 2016, are all purely coincidental then?

Xinjiang was actually largely left behind and destitute until Xi Jinping became chairman in 2013. Widespread poverty and neighbouring Afghanistan under fire from US and UK bombings also didn't help matters. Since then, according to the Xinjiang White Papers, there is no metric suggesting anything resembling a genocide. Wages, life expectancy, literacy, living standards have all increased. There is plenty of Uyghur culture on display in China, a HSR connects Xinjiang to the rest of China from the city of Urumqi (though a route should be alao extended to Aksu and Kashgar IMO) and they still learn not only their Uyghur language, but Mandarin on top of that and job skills, allowing them to better integrate with society at large. Agruculture is also being mechanized throughout China, including in Xinjiang. The province is still one of the lower-income ones, but living is cheap and it has not been "poor" for several years now. I've heard people say that Xinjiang has the best food, so there's also that.

Oh and allegedly, the people in Xinjiang are among the most anti-West in China. If that's true, gee I can't imagine why...