• Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Is it also a bit when you say the Uyghur genocide doesn’t exist?

    No, because it doesn’t. You can literally hop on a plane and go there, right now, and see with your own eyes that Uyghur culture is alive and thriving.

    Genocide in Gaza, on the other hand, is quite real. You can try to hop on a boat to go see it, but the perpetrators will kidnap you before you get there.

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      Yeah, see, the way you’re talking right now looks exactly the same to me as the “no politik” comment

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        yes, we know you’re not very smart and also have no idea what hexbear is like (which is why you make up silly shit in your head instead)

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            What kind of dumbass point are you trying to make? “I’m broke, therefore there’s a genocide in Xinjiang?”

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              I’m broke, therefore telling me to go to Xinjiang isn’t evidence. Like, okay, you’re an ml user, so you’re going to need an example. Let me make a similar argument.

              Saturn has a breathable atmosphere! Take a rocket and see for yourself.

              See how you don’t have a rocket, so you can’t go to Saturn, so my comment therefore doesn’t have any evidence in it? Now pretend Xinjiang is Saturn, and then you’ll understand my rebuttal.

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                The idea that your personal finances affect whether there is a genocide is obviously absurd. If you were blind would all visual evidence be invalid?

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                  I dunno, go argue with someone who believes the ideas you’re attributing to me. I’ve got no dog in the fight you’re having with an imaginary version of me

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                but the claim “saturn has air on it” is like “there’s genocide in xinjiang”. you have to bring some evidence for it to be considered. but you dont have that evidence, you just have this vague impression you picked up from US propaganda (mainly zenz), which you never critically evaluated because you automatically think china bad (because of previous US propaganda campaigns) and thus believe every bad thing about them.

                btw, even the west has mostly dropped this shit years ago, because it became embarrassingly clear that they were lying. please update your programming.

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                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

                  Beginning in 2017, under Xinjiang CCP Secretary Chen Quanguo,[3] the government incarcerated over an estimated one million Uyghurs without legal process in internment camps officially described as “vocational education and training centers”, in the largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority group since World War II.

                  I admit, this article does have some inaccuracies. For example, it calls the imprisonment of Uyghurs the biggest mass internment since WW2, when it’s actually the second biggest. Gaza is bigger. But broad strokes, China has been locking people up based on ethnicity, and their birth rates have dropped 20% more than the rest of the country, so they’re contributing to the destruction of a people. If this weren’t something they were responsible for, I’d say it’d be their ethical duty to distribute aid to assist in the preservation of the Uyghur people. You know, pay for free daycare so young couples can feel safer starting a family. But that sort of thing isn’t really a priority in this case, because all the government needs to do in order to not destroy a people is stop persecuting them.

                  China initially denied the existence of the Xinjiang internment camps and attempted to cover up their existence.[90] In 2018, after widespread reporting forced it to admit that the Xinjiang internment camps exist, the Chinese government initiated a campaign to portray the camps as humane and to deny that human rights abuses occurred in Xinjiang.

                  Oh wow I guess the secret camps full of racial minorities that the government tried to cover up must be nice places to live, because the same government says they are, and the government would never lie to people. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, the genocide doesn’t exist I guess.

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                    just checked your sources and it’s cnn, cnn, some report in the US senate by a US state department employee and fucking adrian zenz. this is exactly what i mean.

                    one of the most islamophobic countries on earth, responsible for the deaths of millions of muslims in just the last 25 years is bringing this noise.

                    btw, what do you think china should have done to combat US-funded fundamentalist islam from encroaching on their territory? should it have let it just continue? should it have allowed the destruction of uyghur culture? should it have bombed xinjiang for 20 years?

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        I’m deadly serious. Five hundred bucks, hop on a plane from LAX to Guangzhou, then grab a cheap connection to Xinjiang. There’s some great food in Hami. Try the snow melon.

        I’d suggest hopping on a plane to go check out Gaza, but the occupiers destroyed all the airports. blob-no-thoughts