It’s only genocide if its from the Völkermord region in Germany. Otherwise it’s just sparkling mass murder.
The sheer volume of actual Germans on Lemmy that believe this statement and will argue about it is shocking.
A year or so ago, the new UK government sent a delegation to China to improve relations and shore up trade and investment deals, ignoring criticism from the left about Uyghur genocide
This is what the Tankies get fundamentally wrong about the modern world - the idea that anything anti-China is a smear to further Western Imperialism is a throwback to the cold war dichotomy of The West vs Communism.
In reality now, it’s all about investment and global trade, neoliberal wealth generation over human rights. Of course propaganda is real and everywhere, but the framing of it all as West vs East is just incredibly outdated and oversimplified.
Downplaying or waving away mistreatment of the Uyghurs puts you on the same side as Western Governments, so dismissing the issue as Western Propaganda is fundamentally flawed
Yeah, people heard their grandpa say racist/straight propaganda against a country they know in the modern day as useful and decide to go overboard protecting it as if every negative statement cant be trusted.
Its definitely not the same world anymore and protecting bad behavior of human treatment behind past victimhood does nothing to help. It just excuses away one more abuser who is trying to make a buck.Fucking thank you. I see people railing against imperialism by describing the world through an entirely imperialistic mindset. They are so lost in the sauce they can’t see straight.
It’s not true, you’re CIA, and even if it was true it would be a good thing.
You’re CIA.
(/s obviously)
(You’re CIA)
He’s CIA, I backtracked his IP address.
Consequences will never be the same
The meme checks out: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/population-birth-rate-by-region/cn-population-birth-rate-xinjiang . Birth rate was 1.588 in 2017 and at a similar level in the years before that, 1.069 in 2018, 0.814 in 2019 and so on.
Extra surveillance and repression reportedly started in 2014, mass incarceration in 2017.
This is a country that had a one child policy for the ethnic in group. But to do this in secret betrays intention.
I would love to see the Chinese version of The Simpson’s (dubbed in English)
Their attempt at The Colbert Report was… special. ❤️
