He was responding to a question about the cancellation of his exhibition by the Lisson Gallery in London in November following comments on social media referencing the Israel-Hamas conflict.
His post, which was subsequently deleted, suggested the “sense of guilt around the persecution of the Jewish people” had been transferred and used against the Arab world.
Referring to his own family’s exile when he was one year old, the activist said: "I grew up within this heavy political censorship.
“I realise now, today in the West, you are doing exactly the same.”
He drew parallels with the disastrous purge under Mao, which took China to the brink of anarchy.
Criticising the suspension of two New York University professors for comments related to Gaza, Ai said: "This is really like a cultural revolution, which is really trying to destroy anybody who have different attitudes, not even a clear opinion.
Ai’s art often addresses political issues in China and he has frequently criticised Beijing’s record on human rights and democracy.
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What the hell. Why are you on a federated platform if you don’t want to see what your server federated with?
Go back to reddit, if you want to live in a curated bubble.
Cause tankies who are sympathetic to the CCP and russia, which is the mass majority of lemmy.grad and now lemmy.ml, need to be told to fuck off. BTW, lemmy.ml is real close to being defederated just like lemmy.grad was, because of the CCP propaganda that’s spewed.
Is it? And how would you know?
Are you on the mod team? Cause I don’t see you listed.
You might wanna go read some comments from your fellow ml users then.
Is it? And how would you know?
Are you on the mod team? Cause I don’t see you listed.
Just a guess, lemmy.grad and hexbear were kicked because of the amount of crazy tankie shit from them. So a lot of those users jumped to lemmy.ml
Not to far a reach to catch on.
Also being an admin of an instance or part of some instances mod team doesn’t mean you can dictate that all instances will defederate anything. You do understand how a decentralized platform works right?
Do you have no reading comprehension skills whatsoever?
You implied that you had inside knowledge that Lemmy.ml was about to be defederated from Lemmy. World.
I was asking how you know. You’re not on an admin team, so I don’t think you have inside knowledge.
I literally quoted the line you did it, too.
Yes no I didn’t, I said it was close, because I’m seeing the same CCP shit tankies from grad and hexbear have moved to .ml
No where did I say this was a fact.
Whoops I forgot that any criticism of the west enforcing Genocide makes me a Tankie that denies Genocide
Naa, we who live in the west criticize it all the time, what we don’t do is act like the CCP can do no wrong and bring up whataboutism to defend it, which is exactly what you’re doing here.