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volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 2 days agoFirst, it’s the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs
Then why did the Wikipedia article change its name from Uyghur Genocide to Persecution of Uyghur?
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volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 2 days agoFirst, it’s the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs
Then why did the Wikipedia article change its name from Uyghur Genocide to Persecution of Uyghur?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Genocide is a controversial term.
Even today, people contest the Armenian genocide, and Ukrainian genocide (holodomir). Even the Holocaust.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I think most normal people are quite happy to ignore the opinions of anyone that denies the holocaust.
volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 2 days ago
People contest the Ukrainian genocide because it wasn’t a genocide, it was a famine that affected multiple regions including Ukraine, and didn’t have any ethnical component to it.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It was Stalin who systematically made the famine worse in Ukraine to break them. I learned about it in High School history class.
volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Wow, you learned it in high school, must be true then lmao. I was taught in high school that the Spanish empire was cool and based, and there were no atrocities in Latin america in my studies.
The claims of Holodomor being a genocide against Ukrainian are new, mostly post-2000s, and part of nationalist movements in eastern Europe and russophobia/anticommunism.