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0 pointslogicchains10mo ago0 comments

>Also… your neighbors in Myanmar didn’t do a lockdown during the genocide and things got pretty fucking dire as a result

The genocide in Myanmar was incited _by_ the government there; giving it more power to censor it's citizens' communications would have done absolutely nothing to help the people being genocided. Genocides don't just suddenly happen; the vast majority of genocide over the past century (including Indonesian genocides against ethnically Chinese Indonesians) had the support of the state.

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hinkley10mo ago

This has been simmering for a very long time. The first I heard of it was violence that broke out after the defacement of a Buddhist temple statue. That would have been almost 20 years ago. Buddhists murdering people tends to lead one to ask a lot of questions.

At that time I think the government was hands off, let it happen rather than tried to stop it.

Regardless of who was behind the violence, the whole region has thought about what to do in such situations and they aren’t the same answers the West would choose.

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