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6 years agoChina is taking direct and effective anti-terrorism operations that focus on education; France is defending the rights of bigots to be bigots. The Xinjiang Schooling Programs have a great likelihood to completely or almost completely eliminate terrorism in Xinjiang after only a few years; to portray both as violent acts against Muslims ignores the fact that France seeks only to exclude, alienate, and offend while China seeks to educate and integrate - which is why almost every single Muslim country on earth, even erstwhile U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia - are backing the Chinese and opposing the French.
Agreed. Encouraging people to organize and do praxis is good. Incessantly bitching, complaining, and shaming about how there are 10,000 people on the site and not all of them are actually doing real-world activism is not.
I’m a Socialist. Yes, I probably should be putting more effort into radicalizing people I know IRL, unionizing my workplace, going to more protests. But also, I’m a lazy piece of shit and I’m not going to do any of that, for the foreseeable future at least.
Any energy spent browbeating people for sitting in front of a computer wasting their life would be better spent building a path to activism. It’s easy to say “You should be doing more”, but while it might make you feel better, it doesn’t actually result in people doing more. It’s harder to put in the work of convincing people to do more, and removing barriers to people doing more.
A moderator team that generates a feeling of superiority over their userbase because they’re doing more “praxis” than average can only really devolve into said moderator team eventually dissolving the community and telling everyone to “go outside”, as if the actual result of such an action wouldn’t just be the unmotivated userbase moving onto other websites where they can be lazy fuckers, while destroying a centralized left-wing community that could have been used as a pool for radicalization and recruitment.