• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I’ve never heard of any of these western sources you’re citing…

    I do have uyghur friends though. Are they fake too?

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      1 month ago

      “my friends” is not valid evidence of genocide , thousands of pictures of dead children and destroyed cities is

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        1 month ago

        Nobody ever accused china of bombing cities and murdering children. You’re thinking of israel.

        Genocide can take forms other than bombing and starvation.

        Residential school system in Canada is considered a form of genocide on the native population. We dont have to literally bomb them out of existence to be considered a bad thing

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          1 month ago

          and yet majority of people that accuse china of genocide deny israel doing genocide

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            1 month ago

            i really don’t understand all these people on .ml (who clearly aren’t chinese) bootlicking for china

            look, i’m a “communist” as well… i hate capitalism, blah blah blah… you guys are right about so many things. china is great, the west fucking sucks. i 100% agree…

            but i don’t understand why it has to extend to, “ALL criticism of china is invalid”… china has a clear objective of unifying the nation and the culture. and that means pushing out the non-han minorities such as the uyghur people.

            is this achieved through extreme violence? of course not. that’s barbaric and not-subtle.

            china knows how to play the long game. decades if needed. the west doesn’t see anything beyond a 4 year election cycle…

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              There is good criticism of China, but the problem with how Xinjiang is portrayed is that it’s the most reactionary, anti-communist people that are pushing the genocide theory the most. They armed seperatists and radicalized them in order to foment a block in the Belt and Road Initiative. The idea that China is pushing out non-Han ethnicities is wrong, China’s NPC has great minority representation, ethnic minorities are well protected, and Uyghur culture is flourishing.