The irony of everything being censored here is amusing.
inb4 banned on ml, I will wear it as a badge of honor
On a more serious note: How about not blindly following anyone? The people in power don’t give a shit about you, anyways.
This is holocaust trivialization. Regardless of how you view the correctional programs in Xinjiang, there’s zero evidence of mass sterilization or mass-murder of Uyghur peoples, to draw a direct comparison to the holocaust trivializes the system of industrialized murder committed by the Nazis. Read the UN report on Xinjiang.
Secondly, just assuming support for China must be blind is infantilizing. There are a number of reasons to support the PRC, including its focus on international cooperation over mass bombing campaigns a la the west, to its focus on infrastructural development and poverty alleviation.
You posted a report from 2022
- concentration camps are a fact
- forced labor is a fact
- forced reeducation is a fact
- laws specifically made against uyghurs are a fact
- deaths that aren’t independently investigated are a fact
I could go on. The connection isn’t that outlandish to make. I am not going to discuss semantics and I dont believe either of us will change their mind, so I wont reply again.
Edit: Links fixed.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153621
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/31/china-unrelenting-crimes-against-humanity-targeting-uyghurs
The source for the Reuters article was the report I linked from 2022, lol. The UN link references the same report. The HRW (itself a western state-linked propaganda outlet) also only references the UN report I linked from 2022. The atlantic council report links to the UN report, and to Adrian Zenz, the far-right christian nationalist that believes he was sent by God to punish China, is a member of the propaganda outlet Victims of Communism, has been caught falsifying evidence, and has never been to China.
You just looked up “China Uyghur” or something and grabbed some links without checking them, otherwise you’d know that they all point to the same relatively reputable source, the UN report, and occasionally Adrian Zenz, the fascist propagandist (literally, no exaggeration). You should read the UN report, rather than opinion pieces that don’t add anything except reference it, as it’s clear you haven’t.
Even then, even if you were 100% correct, you’d still be comparing human rights abuses to industrialized murder of millions of people. This is holocaust trivialization, and it is outlandish. You’d think Germans would try to be a bit more careful about that, but considering Germany’s dedication to supporting Israel’s genocidal mass murder of Palestinians on live TV, maybe that isn’t so surprising.
Edit: checked the UN link once you fixed the link. Surprise, surprise, all 4 of your articles link the same report I told you to read, and one of them links to Adrian Zenz when it wants to add extra spicy allegations entirely detached from reality.
Sure, I will give you what I said was an exaggeration and edit my original comment.
That’s much better. I still recommend you read the UN report, as well as China’s response to it. It’s a real situation, but one that western media and state-backed outlets try to distort in order to push a narrative based on exaggeration to outright falsehoods (in the case of Adrian Zenz). The UN report at least tries to stick to the actual facts at hand, even if it is biased, but the media treats Adrian Zenz as just as valid a source for the purposes of misrepresentation.
