Considering there is absolutely no scholarly consensus on Xinjiang (my very own former genocide studies teacher, Dr Jens Meierhenrich, does not consider it genocide, for example. He is not a ‘tankie’, he is an extremely well-regarded political scientist who has taught at the best universities in the world) being a genocide it is pretty silly to support defederating because of it. Adrian Zenz is not a valid researcher as he’s done no fieldwork, doesn’t speak any local language, is a Christofascist fundamentalist (look up some of the stuff he’s written about Jews), and his methodology + analysis is extremely poor. I’ve read through all his papers to see what the big deal was and I found it was completely unscientific and was just based on some very lousy correlations. The UN investigation simply did not find proof of genocide and did not claim to. It said there is evidence of human rights abuses which is something most will agree with.

I have no doubt there is genuine persecution + forced cultural assimilation against the Ughyur-I have a friend whose wife is an Ughyur who fled the region because of it-but there is simply not evidence of genocide.

No, I do not agree w/ most Hexbears on China because I do not believe it is democratic, but that doesn’t mean China’s political system is beyond discussion, does it?

People being rude and mean is not good and I do not suppor them. Hopefully Hexbear admins will ban them or whatever.

I think this does not constitute a valid reason for deferation whatsoever. It just feels like people are not open to seeing other opinions that they’re not used to.