Is this “footage of concentration camps” in the room with us now? The only videos I’ve seen were of people being detained (who are now released) or otherwise on voluntary programs.
It’s best described as compulsory (re)education for at-risk adults. And it’s also successfully concluded; the schools have been closed for over four years.
Westerners have settler-colonialism in their cultural DNA. When they see boarding schools for ethnic minorities, they can’t help but project their own genocidal history and intent. But it’s not a fair comparison. Schools for First Nations people in North America would beat children for speaking their native tongue, whereas the ones in Xinjiang improved literacy in the indigenous languages.
How is it cultural genocide when they have all public things (signs, documents etc) written in Mandarin and the local language? If the government rebuilds and renovates historical and religious buildings? Sponsors cultural events, like festivals, parades, performances etc.
This is true for all autonomous and minority regions and cultures in China btw, not just Xinjiang and the Uyghur people.
Who said it’s Sinicisation? People can be taught life skills in a culturally respectful manner. China and Russia are not settler-colonial cultures. Is it cultural genocide to teach Uyghur adults how to read and write in their own language?
Any defender of settler colonialism in the new world or Australia could say the same thing, and you would be the first to point out why it’s bad.
Like it or not, Sinicisation and the destruction of mosques are colonialism and cultural genocide. The massive birth rate drop is also overwhelmingly likely to be genocidal. Even if every report about sterilisation is false, forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children than they were before is a genocidal policy: they want less Uighur children to exist.
Anyone who cares about the self-determination of indigenous peoples would naturally care about this too. China doesn’t become ontologically evil because they do some bad stuff. No socialist project should be above critique. China is not our football team.
Any defender of settler colonialism in the new world or Australia could say the same thing, and you would be the first to point out why it’s bad.
Like it or not, Sinicisation and the destruction of mosques are colonialism and cultural genocide. The massive birth rate drop is also overwhelmingly likely to be genocidal. Even if every report about sterilisation is false, forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children than they were before is a genocidal policy: they want less Uighur children to exist.
Anyone who cares about the self-determination of indigenous peoples would naturally care about this too. China doesn’t become ontologically evil because they do some bad stuff. No socialist project should be above critique. China is not our football team.
Uighurs are the 2nd fastest growing ethnic group in all of China. Their population is growing both in absolute and relative terms. Westoids cannot address this.
That was fake news. That shady Australian weapons lobby organization used satellite photos of a mosque that was being renovated and expanded. The number of mosques has increased in Xinjiang. It’s undergoing a cultural revival.
forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children
Source for those numbers? How do you “force” people to not have kids?
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Is this “footage of concentration camps” in the room with us now? The only videos I’ve seen were of people being detained (who are now released) or otherwise on voluntary programs.
You can’t trust those sly Asiatics! If they’re doing something organized then it’s probably nefarious.
It’s best described as compulsory (re)education for at-risk adults. And it’s also successfully concluded; the schools have been closed for over four years.
Westerners have settler-colonialism in their cultural DNA. When they see boarding schools for ethnic minorities, they can’t help but project their own genocidal history and intent. But it’s not a fair comparison. Schools for First Nations people in North America would beat children for speaking their native tongue, whereas the ones in Xinjiang improved literacy in the indigenous languages.
Fork it over, fork over the evidence
Evidence of concentration camps in UK
“China doing genocide is bad”
“So you’re saying the west doing genocide is good?”
Mfs when a whole other sentence.
A functional penal system isn’t exactly genocide.
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How is it cultural genocide when they have all public things (signs, documents etc) written in Mandarin and the local language? If the government rebuilds and renovates historical and religious buildings? Sponsors cultural events, like festivals, parades, performances etc.
This is true for all autonomous and minority regions and cultures in China btw, not just Xinjiang and the Uyghur people.
What do you mean by cultural genocide exactly?
Who said it’s Sinicisation? People can be taught life skills in a culturally respectful manner. China and Russia are not settler-colonial cultures. Is it cultural genocide to teach Uyghur adults how to read and write in their own language?
Any defender of settler colonialism in the new world or Australia could say the same thing, and you would be the first to point out why it’s bad.
Like it or not, Sinicisation and the destruction of mosques are colonialism and cultural genocide. The massive birth rate drop is also overwhelmingly likely to be genocidal. Even if every report about sterilisation is false, forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children than they were before is a genocidal policy: they want less Uighur children to exist.
Anyone who cares about the self-determination of indigenous peoples would naturally care about this too. China doesn’t become ontologically evil because they do some bad stuff. No socialist project should be above critique. China is not our football team.
Any defender of settler colonialism in the new world or Australia could say the same thing, and you would be the first to point out why it’s bad.
Like it or not, Sinicisation and the destruction of mosques are colonialism and cultural genocide. The massive birth rate drop is also overwhelmingly likely to be genocidal. Even if every report about sterilisation is false, forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children than they were before is a genocidal policy: they want less Uighur children to exist.
Anyone who cares about the self-determination of indigenous peoples would naturally care about this too. China doesn’t become ontologically evil because they do some bad stuff. No socialist project should be above critique. China is not our football team.
Uighurs are the 2nd fastest growing ethnic group in all of China. Their population is growing both in absolute and relative terms. Westoids cannot address this.
Any source on this? Even shitty fake Western news only claims more like 30% at the time.
That was fake news. That shady Australian weapons lobby organization used satellite photos of a mosque that was being renovated and expanded. The number of mosques has increased in Xinjiang. It’s undergoing a cultural revival.
Source for those numbers? How do you “force” people to not have kids?
You should read through this. Make sure to check the sources for all of these. Like this.
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It happens to the best of us.