• @[email protected]
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    I used to believe this until I went on a hunt to support that belief with evidence.

    It’s not there. The various news reports are a giant chain of references to other news reports.

    Most of them ultimately reference one of a few sources.

    Adrian Zenz is one of the most referenced “experts” on the “Uyghur Genocide”. He used to just write about Jesus https://www.amazon.com/Worthy-Escape-Believers-Raptured-Tribulation/dp/1449769063 until God sent him on a mission to take down China. His two big works are “the Xinjiang Cables” (which don’t say what he says they say) and a report where he interviewed about a dozen people for their opinions, took it as fact and extrapolated it to the entire population of Xinjiang.

    There are also a series of papers from the ASPI. A quick look at their funding list makes it pretty obvious what their agenda is (tl;dr a bunch of defense contractors).

    There was a pseudonymous Canadian law student, Shawn Zhang, who pretended to be a satellite image expert and “identified” a bunch of detention centers. According to him it’s easy to tell because you can see the barbed wire. I’ve looked at the images he claimed to reference and there’s no barbed wire.

    Most of the rest of the “evidence” is from organizations which receive over 90% of their funding from the US government.

    • @PugJesusOP
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      203 months ago

      Is the UN a organization that’s too Westoid to accept?

      • @Freefall
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        153 months ago

        The CCP bots and ops are getting weird.

        • @PugJesusOP
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          113 months ago

          It’s worse - they’re not bots, and most of them aren’t fooled by some mass CCP campaign. They’re just fascists, and will go to any length to simp for fascism.

      • @[email protected]
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        153 months ago

        The UN thing is a perfect way of finding out how serious someone is.

        Genocide apologists will say “The UN did not call it a genocide,” or even stronger, “The UN determined it is not a genocide.” The thing they leave out is that the UN did call the treatment of Uyghurs crimes against humanity.

        Seems like a pretty big thing for them to leave out, huh?

        • @[email protected]
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          -83 months ago

          That’s because OP wasn’t talking about general “crimes against humanity”. They’re making the specific, and significantly stronger claim, of “genocide”.

          • @[email protected]
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            143 months ago

            Before going any further, can we at least agree that the treatment of Uyghurs by the government of China rises to the level of crimes against humanity?

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              -113 months ago

              So you’re saying that instead of addressing the issue at hand you want to start with a premise of “China bad.” and just go from there. Great.

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                Twas a yes or no question

                And all through the house

                Not a tankie was answering,

                Not even right now

              • @[email protected]
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                83 months ago

                That’s not even remotely what I said, implied, or believe. Would you like to respond to what I did say, or put words in my mouth?

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                  -43 months ago

                  It wasn’t the topic of the thread and it’s not germane to the question of evidence.

                  It is, at best, a distraction.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    93 months ago

                    No, it’s not.

                    My points were twofold. First, to find out if we could find some common ground. Second, to find out if you actually care about sources and evidence, or judge them retroactively based on whether or not you like the conclusions.

                    The latter makes the conversation a non-starter, because even within a single report, you’ll interpret it in different ways. Within the very constrained lens of not containing the word genocide, to you, it ought to be sufficient. When it comes to crimes against humanity, you don’t want to talk about it, start attacking, and dismiss it as “a distraction.” On the prior point, I hope that your frustration comes from some doubt within you, causing you discomfort. Keep pulling on that thread.

                    Good luck with everything. I hope things get better going forward.

      • @[email protected]
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        -103 months ago

        The UN doesn’t claim there’s a genocide in Xinjiang. They’ve gotten flack from people who assume there must be a genocide and that the UN is lying.

        It ultimately has nothing to do with “Westoid”. It’s all about the evidence. Mere claims of “having credible evidence” don’t count for much if they can’t produce it.

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            -103 months ago

            You know what that Wikipedia article has in common with all the other claims of a genocide in Xinjiang?

            A complete lack of evidence.

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              173 months ago

              Investigative methods The report was created by the United Nations through a thorough review of evidence documented by the OHCHR.[41] Several forms of evidence were considered in making the report, including interviews with several dozen people who lived in Xinjiang at the time that abuses had been publicly reported.[39][40] The report also focused its analysis on what the Chinese government had publicly stated contemporaneously with the reported abuses, including public Chinese government documents and laws promulgated at the time.[41][42] In May 2022, OHCHR commissioner Michelle Bachelet visited Xinjiang. Prior to her visit, she spoke with representatives of several NGOs that were concerned about the both human rights situation in Xinjiang and in China, more broadly. After arriving in the region, she talked to numerous government officials, academics, and civil society leaders.[41] However, due to opposition by China, the OHCHR was unable to conduct a more thorough investigation on-the-ground within the borders of the People’s Republic.[40]

              Findings The report’s findings included that a large number of abuses had occurred within Xinjiang, corroborating academic research and public reporting on the abuses in the largely ethnic minority region.[40] The report concluded that human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang are serious and widespread.[43]

              Arbitrary detention In the report, the OHCHR stated that reports that the Chinese government had arbitrarily detained Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims en masse in the Xinjiang internment camps were credible, specifying that the actions of the Chinese state amounted to deprivation of liberty and were undertaken in a discriminatory fashion.[39][44] Former inmates who were detained in Xinjiang stated that they had received beatings while strapped to a chair and described undergoing torture similar to waterboarding; the report also noted that there was credible evidence of torture within internment camps.[45] The report indicated that these abuses constituted widespread violations of human rights and that they may rise to the level of crimes against humanity.[44]

              Forced labor The report found that the Chinese government’s labor schemes relating to what the government of China referred to as vocational training constituted discrimination.[39][44] With respect to whether labor schemes that China describes as poverty alleviation schemes have involved the coercion of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities into forced labor, the report stated that there was evidence that these schemes did indeed involve coercion of laborers.[42][45]

              Sexual violence and sterilizations The OHCHR described reports of sexual violence targeted at Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims within the Xinjiang internment camps as credible.[39] Women interviewed by the United Nations described being orally raped by prison guards and being forcibly subjected to examinations of their genitalia in front of large crowds.[40] The report also noted that there was an “unusually sharp rise” in the amount of intrauterine device insertions and sterilizations performed in Xinjiang and stated that the Chinese government used coercive means to sharply lower the birth rate of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.[44]

              No evidence to see here, the UN is just a globalhomo conspiracy or whatever the latest fascist line is.

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                Is there any evidence in that wall of text or just a bunch of claims to have seen evidence?

                I don’t need that kind of nonsense for an actual genocide because there are mountains of primary evidence.

                • @[email protected]
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                  113 months ago

                  Fun fact about Wikipedia:

                  Those numbers in brackets are reference numbers. At the bottom of the article they’ll be listed out (you can actually click the number and it’ll take you right to the footnote) with links to those sources