'Three Body Problem’: Netflix accused of normalising persecution of Uighur Muslims

[spankmypirate]

'Three Body Problem’: Netflix defends itself after being accused of normalising persecution of Uighur Muslimshttps://t.co/29bp9gNMtU
- The Independent (@Independent) September 28, 2020
After announcing their decision to greenlight The Three Body Problem trilogy by Chinese author Liu Cixin, Netflix has come under backlash

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[mwffj]

My Republican Senator has been OBSSESSED with China and what they're doing/not doing. Like, shit is burning down, people are dying of Covid and he's posting about needing to sanction China for what they're doing to Hong Kong.

And it's like, you just called people protesting here rioters who should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[triviagogo29]

It’s wild how farcical their concerns over human rights is.

They’re literally bombing the Middle East while enacting a Muslim ban in the US, running concentration camps where immigrants are raped and forcibly sterilized and encouraging ppl to shoot protesters but they’re worried about China???? Make it make sense please!!

[genjinjur]

Republican lawmakers are fucking bizarre. They advocate for human rights defenders and persecuted people in other countries and then turn around and actively TRAMPLE ON the human rights of their own countrymen and woman and people seeking refuge in their country.

[triviagogo29]

They advocate for human rights defenders and persecuted people in other countries
they don't lol. they show faux concern for human rights in places that go against US interests (palestine, iraq, iran, china) but describing that as "advocating for human rights defenders and persecuted people" is going way too far.

of course, the country that is the biggest funder of terrorism and is the biggest human rights violator in the planet (saudi arabia) is the US biggest ally (and that's bipartisan btw) so this tells us all that we need to know.

[missjersey]

I'm not really familiar with this author, but is the problem that Cixin has no problem with internment camps in China and that Netflix is working with him anyway?

[spankmypirate]

Yep that's it.

[aaronnyc89]

[triviagogo29]

Well obviously, that’s how capitalism works and the US is the capitalist Mecca. Do u think capitalism and human rights concerns can co-exist?

[aaronnyc89]

[triviagogo29]

Yes, I do think capitalism and human rights can coexist

In capitalism, profit is the priority. Over literally anything. That's the definition of capitalism.

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

How can an economic and political system where profit is literally the end goal can co-exist with human rights? How can you prioritize human rights when the whole basis of the system is making a profit, not anything else? In my mind, it's literally impossible but maybe I am missing something.

[ladymusashi]

I hate that this is happening and the entire world watches and no one is doing anything. Chinese government started to move against the Mongols as well and are eyeing Taiwan after Hong Kong.

I wanted to read these books because I love sci-fi, but I can't separate artist from the art, sorry. So, fuck him and Netflix too.

[mangomuch]

‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss

What is it with these two???