Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 March 18

= March 18 =

Should I quit this WeChat group?
Dear Wikipedians:

I have been part of a WeChat group for the past five years. This WeChat group is unique in that it is anti-Chinese Communist Party (anti-CCP), yet its members and the entire WeChat group is a purely China-based WeChat group, located inside the Great Firewall of China. This WeChat group has been repeatedly shutdown by the Tencent censors (under CCP guidance), for 47 times so far, yet it is tenacious and always so-called "reincarnates" itself into the next version, and somehow was able to get back almost all its members to the reinvented group, of which I used to be a member.

Throughout the entirety of Russo-Ukranian war, this WeChat group is also impeccable in its values, supporting Ukraine against Russian aggressors throughout.

In October when the Israel-Hamas war broke out, this WeChat group is firmly on the side of the Palestinians, which is fine, as nearly all young high school and university students here in the Free World are also pro-Palestinian.

But then as the Israel-Hamas war grind on, this WeChat group starts to become more and more extremist: it first changed its opposition to Hamas as a terrorist organization to that of veneration for Hamas as a group of freedom fighters fighting for the liberation of the oppressed Palestinians in Gaza.

And now, this WeChat group is positing that Israelis have no right to live in the Palestinian area, let alone form the country of Israel, as this area has been the homeland of the native Arab Palestinians for the past two thousand years. This WeChat group states that if all Israeli Jews are not willing to pack up right now and get out of the geographic Palestine area and migrate somewhere else, then a genocide of all Israeli Jews is justified/warranted, killing off all Jews in the geographic Palestine area and returning the land to the oppressed Arab Palestinians who are the rightful owners.

I know I should have quit this WeChat group a long time ago. But I have always hesitated because they are a group of people physically located in China fighting against CCP-perpetrated injustices in China at great personal risks to themselves, this is a quality that I truly admire. Plus their resolutely staunch stance against the Russians I also truly admire. And even their staunch support for the Palestinians I can empathize with because I know that they support the oppressed Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Concentration Camps in the same way they support the oppressed Palestinians.

But now they have self-radicalized to a point where I can no longer feel comfortable staying on in this WeChat group. Also I live in North America and such radical contents now being exchanged in that WeChat group on a daily basis can bring me untold amount of trouble if it's ever discovered by the FBI/RCMP/CIA/CSIS one day.

Therefore I am thinking of quitting this WeChat group now. It's still not an easy decision for me to make given the length of time I've spent in this WeChat group and how intimately I have come to know some of its members.

Therefore I want to hear your opinions regarding this situation I'm facing right now.

Many thanks, L33th4x0r (talk) 11:26, 18 March 2024 (UTC)