But Vijay DID say something, he just isn't banging the drum enough times for you. Look, frankly, here's my opinion:
If Vijay (or anyone for that matter) is flaking on this and playing loosy-goosey with this issue, they should have to eat their own words. I detest this ingrown toenail of "anti-imperial dialectics" where a matter of provable fact is revolutionary in one context and counterrevolutionary in another because it is a moral abomination. For the past 50 years the US shared carceral technologies with Asia, including the Chinese, and it is bullshit to deny that. People should own their words while being allowed to also oppose imperial saber rattling towards Beijing, which frankly IS going on simultaneously. Do you honestly think Mike Pompeo gives a damn about Muslims? Are we police abolitionist in America but not in other countries? I don't remember Frederick Douglass dropping the flag when he entered the UK because of geopolitical concerns. What is going on with the Uighurs? It seems to me that is basically looks like what we do to urban Black populations, gentrification combined with harsh prison labor. The Chinese are not inventing something new, it is as old as modern urban planning and incarceration. We did the exact same shit to NY Muslims and mosques after 9/11 and made a fucking mint with a cottage industry of "anti-terrorism police training" across the world, just like the Israelis do. You can look at any police footage from China and see the exact same techniques at work. So I'm sorry but I think there's a middle position between absurdist didacticism and utterly shameless apologetic. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8096): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8096 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82210581/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
