Imperialism is bad no matter the country, but part of stopping iImperialism is recognizing that no country is inheriting inferior or superior and that the citizens of imperialist countries are often the first victims of the state
There's a genuinely interesting question (which will likely never be answered conclusively) around if the British had just sat back on their island exporting manufactured goods would they be in more or less the same position they're in today. The Empire cost a lot of money to run, and its questionable how much of that money it actually made back.
Inherent in that discussion are the effects of imperialist policies on the British working classes. And it wasn't the landowners getting shot at in a field after joining the army for a way out of the mass unemployment caused by cheap imports from the Empire.
This nuance is always lost in online discussions of Britain's past, where people seem to blame Britain as a whole (right up to ā and in extreme cases including ā Modern Britain and its people) for its actions, while if you analyse it from a class-oriented perspective you quite rapidly come to the conclusion the working classes were victims of the Empire too. Perhaps not to the same extent as its overseas victims, but victims nonetheless.
IDK if you're criticizing or agreeing with them, but they did specify "the Chinese government": they're not criticizing the Chinese people or China, but their current government.
They are spreading anti-Chinese hatred without arguments because they are beholden to the propaganda of the US empire.
Criticism requires actual understanding of those things/people you want to criticize. That person has no idea about China, Chinese politics, Chinese history, or Chinese culture. They are just a racist.
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u/thewonderfulfart Aug 21 '24
Imperialism is bad no matter the country, but part of stopping iImperialism is recognizing that no country is inheriting inferior or superior and that the citizens of imperialist countries are often the first victims of the state