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Although, there is ample evidence of genocide on both sides. Why does it need to be one team vs the other, vs I don't know, a general support of rights?
Is your name Adrian Zenz lol
Google "atrocity propaganda" and revise your position of there being "ample evidence of genocide on both sides." Palestinian genocide is livestreamed every day. Meanwhile, I have not ever, ever heard of "Uighur genocide" from anyone who is more than three steps removed from the CIA.
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Always the same map.
Turkey is in support? Aren't they the ones that started the Uyghur myth in the first place, along with finding the ETIM?
It should be well known at this point that Turkey has one of the most two faced governments in the world. They perpetually try and play both sides.
Idk if this is even accurate, it seems more like they pay lip service to the global south, while materially always siding with the global north.
While ETIM was founded in turkey, the my of the genocide was started by The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and the BBC.
I thought this was a good video. I’m not sure if it’s a genocide, and I’m sure it’s not on the same scale as Palestine, but I think what’s going on with Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities deserves serious criticism: https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js
Take this with a grain of salt as I have not done in depth research.
No it is a horrible video. He takes every single western accusation for the truth.
Stop worshipping BE.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It seems at the very least to be an attempt at erasing an ethnic culture, comparable in some ways to Native American boarding schools in the history of the U.S. and Canada
No there is no such attempt, lol.
Uyghur language is widely teached, is on the currency notes of the PRC, all public signs in Xinjiang are at least in Uyghur and Mandarin, Uyghurs are well represented in the arts, economy, and public life, hell Xinjiang is major tourist destination within China. Before Covid 300 million people visited each year.
The Uyghurs are one of the 56 recognized ands thus constitutionally protected minorities within the PRC. The PRC guarantees them everything the north american natives can only hope for.
I didn’t realize that the Uyghur language was an official language, and I didn’t know that ethnic groups have constitutional protections in China. I think a lot of the conclusions drawn from the video ignore the context that China has legal protections for languages and ethnic groups that places like the U.S. don’t.
It is completely uncomparable to those atrocities
It is not comparable. Read RDO’s An Indigenous Peoples History of the US if you want to see what actual genocide looks like. Things that are worthy of criticism in China are almost never the things western media criticizes them for imo.