The genocide in Gaza has really demolished the narrative about one going on in China. Because we all know what a real genocide looks like now, if the Chinese were doing somethuing similiar they wouldn't be able to hide it.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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I wish this was the case. I just had a coworker bring up the Uyghur "genocide" as evidence about how bad China is last Friday.
Why are there so many tankies on Lemmy?
You're on Lemmygrad, a community for communists.
In the meantime, define "tankies", because you don't seem to know what that word means.
"Tankies" is just "pinkos" and "commies", words that are not really offensive or describe anything actually bad but challenge the chauvinist and reactionary positions of liberals.
Lemmy is tankie because it's cool. You should try to be as cool as us.
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?
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.
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 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.
I know right? The anti semitism is on the rise, it’s concerning
Western coverage of antisemitism is completely unrelated to actual antisemitic incidents.
@SovietReporter @missandry351 In the sense that arabs are also a semitic people yes
Zionism is deeply antisemitic against jewish peoples too; for Zionists the only valid Jew is the fascist one and thereby carries out one of the axioms of western imperialism - the only truly valid "minority" is the fascist one (see for example, the erasure of communist ukrainians for fascist ones, communist Indonesians for fascist ones, and same for other East Europeans, South Americans etc)
the only truly valid “minority” is the fascist one (see for example, the erasure of communist ukrainians for fascist ones, communist Indonesians for fascist ones, and same for other East Europeans, South Americans etc)
I have also seen that there is an erasure and persecution of communist parties(Ukraine for example) for less effective ones(Trotskyst, Maoist and other pro imperialist ultra left deviations). It is an interesting trend to mention beside the state openly favoring fascist ones.
There was one in Ukraine who went with the liberal "both sides bad" of the conflict -> http://www.solidnet.org/article/23rd-IMCWP-Contribution-by-Union-of-Communists-of-Ukraine/
I care not for the uniform but the content; it is why I do not consider "Western Marxists" of various stripes, locations and ethnicities as communists.
User instance is too on the nose. Anyways, unlimited death on IDF soldiers. Every dead IDF troop is a fresh beer!