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TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That doesn’t mean they are wrong. Deleting something that doesn’t align with your tankie agenda is not ok. That is what they are complaining about.

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• aleph@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It depends how you’re using the term ‘genocide’.

  While the CCP might not necessarily be intentionally killing ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region, there is very strong evidence that they are doing their utmost to stamp out Uyghur culture and forcibly assimilate them into Han Chinese culture.

  It could be argued that this would be a crime under international law, where the definition of genocide includes

  intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

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  • Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the term ethnic cleansing is underused. It’s a strong term with a clear, unambiguous meaning that people can still stand against. It does not run afoul of the fact that when many people hear “genocide”, they don’t think of formal definitions, they think of WW2, trains and gas chambers, and attempts at thorough extermination at a large scale.

    Ethnic cleansing, on the other hand, begs simple questions, like, what is the ethnicity being cleansed from? Simple answer: their land. How are they being cleansed? Killed, driven away or assimilated into another culture. What, exactly, is being cleansed? That group of distinct people right there, their name is whatever.

    It’s clear, concise, and very hard to argue with from any sort of semantic position.

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• Rinox@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you read the report?

  I haven’t read it all, but from reading like a couple paragraphs it says that the Chinese government is making mass incarcerations with accusations of extremism and terrorism, while these terms are not well defined and it appears that they are only targeting Muslims for their religion. Furthermore in these jails it appears that the Chinese government is doing things like forced injections, forcing people to take pills and other classics like torture, waterboarding and rape, invasive gynecological exams etc.

  Inmates are forbidden to pray with guards making rounds at night to ensure compliance, being forbidden to speak their own language or practice anything from their culture. Prominent scholars, artists and intellectuals are being incarcerated, people are forbidden to leave the region or to receive or send money from the outside.

  If it were Israel doing this, and they are doing this, you’d call it genocide, wouldn’t you?

  Or doesn’t Uyghurstan have the same right to exist as Palestine?

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• kbin_space_program@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People are being sterilized en mass.

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They would rather cling to the comforting lies of US propaganda

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  • whatsisface@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    China is committing genocide is comforting?

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