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What exactly is the situation of the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang since 2014 up until now?
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A BBC documentary here demonstrates some evidence of what is shown and what occurs is two different things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c
There is evidence that isn't insinuations and it isn't American.
Here is a complete dismantling of this propaganda piece.
It's not really a documentary, more commentary with background images to make it seem relevant. Notice the music choices and editing to really try and make images of boring and normal lockers and classrooms seem sinister. Notice that it is the narrator making most of the allegations and how very short the edited-in clips of "responses" are. Not one "interview" segment shown was longer than 10 seconds.
Example: "[China want you to believe those at the vocational center are] being willingly guided away from extremism" with a cut to video of a 360 surveillance camera outside. How sinister and coercive! Surely London doesn't have these on virtually every street falsehoodsS they do regularly lie in that "documentary" via the narrator. For example, the vast majority of people went home every day and the documentary literally shows this with buses but doesn't provide a commentary to note the inconsistency.
This is actually a very good test case for sharpening your skills at critically engaging with propaganda. Can you spot any other examples of msnipulation, misleading statements, or falswhoods in the video?
lol this BBC?
BBC is not a credible news source, they're an orientalist rag / tabloid journalism.
Because you disagree with them, they're not credible?
The BBC was full on pushing the propaganda that Iraq had WMDs, were they credible then?
Were they credible when pushing for every single US war and proxy war since?
Are they credible in their full support for Israel, and condemnation of the Palestinian resistance as terrorism?
Remember that time the BBC got caught editing photos of vloggers in China to make it look dystopian, then quietely edited the photos after getting caught?