You're confusing individual citizens having -phobic attitudes/thoughts vs statal oppression, everywhere in the west there are islamophobic citizens, homophobic citizens, antisemitic citizens, transphobic citizens, etc but it doesn't mean it reaches a statal level bc these are all results of cultural biases that yes, sometimes are fed by certain political parties as a means to earn votes for their own benefits, however statal oppression speaks of laws put in place to explicitly claim certain populations as class b citizens, as inferior, so they're persecuted, not allowed to exist in public, they're tortured, imprisoned, etc. I would say France for example is a state that oppresses their Muslim population, they consistently try to ban women from wearing hijabs on campuses, they forbid Muslim apparel on the beach (and then had to overrule this due to human rights concerns), etc, because these are all laws that forbid a very specific group from freely existing in public due to their religion. In 1970s in my country under the dictatorship you would be murdered by the state if found to be reading communist theory books and there was a very clear good citizen classification order done and explicitly published by the state and presented as a valid, lawful document, this was the case too under south African apartheid with race and the current Israeli occupation apartheid. In China this is not the case, the state does not persecute or push laws against minorities, on the contrary, minorities are actually more protected under laws, they were exempt from the 1 child policy, there's programs of cultural protection of their customs and languages, etc, what HAS happened in China is that the CIA funded cell groups of extremism for their own benefits in key, very resources rich regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the government has clashed with these very specific groups, not with the broader minorities, and these propaganda movements are still heavily funded by the US government to this day btw
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