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The Uyghur "genocide" is debatable. As far as I know, internment camps exist but there's no widespread executions like those claimed by western media. It's not like the Palestinian genocide where there's documented proof.
If one of them tries to walk out, do they just let them?
Watched an interesting take from one of the Chinese politician or whatever they are called there.
He was blaming the US imperial forces causing turmoil in Afghanistan which leaked into the Chinese side and fumed some of the locals now wanting to split from China and wanting their own nation. Pollie said their leader is an american citizen. So I guess china has been detaining these people? Who knows.
This is their loincloth of a justification for the genocide, yes.
That seems to be the official take according to the CCP, the internment camps are used to re-educate extremists.
Genocide doesnt require direct killing. Forced sterilization and destruction of cultural identity is also genocide.
From Wikipedia:
And there is plenty of documented proof of that. To deny that is to deny your own ability to see, read and think.
Is your proof from Adrian Zenz? Hasn't it been proven that he manipulated the data on his research and lied repeatedly?
So you admit to not being able to do any of those three?
Here have fun reading ~400 sources ranging from pre 2000 to present day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China#References
Literally thousands of news organizations from left to right, old to new, small to large have reported on this. There are uncountable numbers of reports and pieces of evidence from texts to pictures to audio and video recordings to witness reports.
I merely asked whether your source is Adrian Zenz and your immediate reaction is to insult and belittle. I'm sorry but I'm just a nobody with no interest on genocide, so I haven't spent hours researching the subject. I guess that makes me a complete idiot who is unable to see, read or think.
If you ask me about some specific source, then you already know that what i have said is true and you are just trying to argue for the sake of arguing. If you know the name Adrian Zenz, then you know how to read a Wikipedia article.
Yeah, nah. I don't care enough to argue with you. Just for the record, I don't know what you said is true. I don't believe there's a genocide in Xinjiang. Sure, there's definitely bad things going on there like systemic oppression but I doubt it's at the level of genocide.
What do you mean by prove? This person just copy and pasted the definition.
They mentioned there's plenty of documented proof, so I asked whether it's from Adrian Zenz.
Why?
Because they are trying to catch people in a bad faith argument about the validity of specific individual sources.