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stupid tankies, China is a settler-colonialist state
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Oh cool a reddit liberal
Do you ever feel like maybe you've been lied to whenever people dig into the Uigher genocide thing and literally EVERY single source eventually circles back to Adrian Zenz or literal State Department mouthpieces like Radio Free Asia?
Do you ever look at the constantly increasing Uigher population and the fact that they, like other ethnic minorities, were exempt from the One Child policy, and think "hmmm you know what that doesn't make sense if they're genociding them?" Because idk, that fact would give me pause before I go into a xenophobic fury like a good little drone.
The UN even investigated the issue and found nothing.
Yeah and a coalition of Muslim majority countries. Libs don't care though, they choose the fascist propaganda
"Muslims don't care about other Muslims. The only credible source are the countries who've spent the last two decades bombing and killing millions of Muslims."
Real racist shit, accusing Muslims of being untrustworthy whenever their opinions don't line up with the West.
The UN didn't find "nothing," they found a concerning set of laws and practices that didn't rise to the UN's (admittedly broad) definition of genocide. Fwiw, though, the US's treatment of black people also doesn't rise to the UN's standard of genocide, so it doesn't mean everything is squeaky clean over there.
Yep. Ironically all the US propaganda has made it hard to discuss what's actually happening there because in my experience the second you say "it doesn't meet the definition of a genocide", people's brains shut down and they accuse you of defending China and denying genocide.
I need to read more on the situation. Do you have a recommendation?
UN report PDF
Text of the Xinjiang anti-extremism law
Thank you 🙏
No, because they work backwards from a predetermined conclusion. They would invent a different genocide if the Uighers didn’t exist.
You can see that they did it with Tibetans before and that's been thrown to the wayside because it's been decades and Tibetans are now more numerous, more educated (in their own language and in Mandarin) and enjoy a higher standard of living than ever before.
They can only lie about this shit for a certain amount of time before the truth becomes insurmountable, but by that time they'll just move on to other bullshit.
Average life expectancy in Tibet has increased from 35 years in 1951 to 72 years in 2021.
Tibet is the first region in China to provide 15 years of publicly funded education, from kindergartens to senior high schools.
This is what liberals oppose.
But what about the rights of the heckin' wholesome lamas to skin their serfs for decorative purposes?
It's incredibly generous of you to think that libs dropped Tibet because of material reality not agreeing with their propaganda.
More realistically, Xinjiang is the new hot thing because the State Dept saw the Al Qaeda off-shoots there as a useful tool for sabotaging the Belt and Road initiative and booming PV industry in the region. There's only so much fake tears you can squeeze out of a person and there's no point in diluting the message.
Well, the Dalai Lama turning out to be a pedo probably didn't help the lib cause either.