• Vivendi@lemmy.zip
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      Oh ducking please, even Adrian Zenz the nutjob stopped peddling this shit when his “evidence” was exposed

      You want to cry for a Muslim genocide? You want to cry for concentration camps, slave labor, and gross violation of human rights? I got great news for you, there is one going on right now and it’s supported by the same people who cried for the supposed genocide of Muslims in China lmfao

      TLDR: It’s literally propaganda spread by a neoreligion death cult (Falun Gong) and a schizo (Adrian Zenz) primarily spread through an InfoWars-level conspiracy outlet called Radio Free Asia*

      *This is the same Radio Free Asia that claimed, in two different articles that:

      A) In north Korea, you get executed if you have the same hairstyle as Kim

      and

      B) In north Korea, you get executed for NOT having the same hairstyle as Kim

      You might as well subscribe to Alex Jones if you believe this fucking derivel

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            +5 Social Credit, maybe I’ll get a new one when this one stops being relevant and funny :)

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              Coincidentally I like the ‘idea’ of social credit… it actually does make some sense. A kind of a reward and stick for behaviors beyond the taxation system. Volunteered? Have some social credit, anti-social behavior late night loud partying in an otherwise quiet residential district where you haven’t told anyone… spend some social credit to avoid the fine.

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        You are intentionally trying to spread extremely harmful and false ideas. You’re trying to cover for atrocities. You’re either misguided, or a bad person.

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          I’m called misguided by someone deep into State Dept cool aid. 20 years ago, libs said the same shit about Iraq and it’s WMDs and y’all pretended like you were on the right side of history back then. It’s just nowadays that you admit to your mistakes. Same with CIA funding jihadi groups…

          Yeah, believe whatever the fuck you want, I live in the actual other side of the planet, your opinions won’t scratch my balls. Just a heads up, I said what I could

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        Fuck off tanki. The genocide against the uyghurs is well documented. You can critique both the genocides commited by china and the one commited by Israel.

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          When I have time, I will actually go through those one by one, but MANY news outlets actually go in circles, if you follow the trail you either end up with dead links or an RFA article

          The biggest info dump in the whole case, if you remember, was the supposed police files leak, and that contained both images of famous Chinese actors (who weren’t Uyghur btw) and AI-generated images, so sorry if I’m not on board with the latest Falun Gong propaganda leaflets

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            Here’s the conclusion from the official 2022 UN report: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ohchr-assessment-human-rights-concerns-xinjiang-uyghur-autonomous-region

            "Overall assessment and recommendations

            1. Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the Government’s application of counter-terrorism and counter-“extremism” strategies. The implementation of these strategies, and associated policies in XUAR has led to interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights. These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities.

            2. These human rights violations, as documented in this assessment, flow from a domestic “anti-terrorism law system” that is deeply problematic from the perspective of international human rights norms and standards. It contains vague, broad and open-ended concepts that leave wide discretion to officials to interpret and apply broad investigative, preventive and coercive powers, in a context of limited safeguards and scant independent oversight. This framework, which is vulnerable to discriminatory application, has in practice led to the large-scale arbitrary deprivation of liberty of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities in XUAR in so-called VETC and other facilities, at least between 2017 and 2019. Even if the VETC system has since been reduced in scope or wound up, as the Government has claimed, the laws and policies that underpin it remain in place. There appears to be a parallel trend of an increased number and length of imprisonments occurring through criminal justice processes, suggesting that the focus of deprivation of liberty has shifted towards imprisonment, on purported grounds of counter-terrorism and counter-“extremism”.

            3. The treatment of persons held in the system of so-called VETC facilities is of equal concern. Allegations of patterns of torture or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention, are credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence. While the available information at this stage does not allow OHCHR to draw firm conclusions regarding the exact extent of such abuses, it is clear that the highly securitised and discriminatory nature of the VETC facilities, coupled with limited access to effective remedies or oversight by the authorities, provide fertile ground for such violations to take place on a broad scale."

            However, it is noteworthy that if one were in China and were to criticize the government or comment on the uyghar issue, you will find yourself being sentenced to prison. Possibly up to a life sentence.

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        I knew it would come to this if leftists refused to get off tik tok. Acceptance of genocide against some people while decrying genocide against others, all based solely on whomever serves them the content tells them to.

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          A shocking amount of “news” today is simply propaganda. Whether that is intentional or not is the million dollar question…