The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups, pursuant to law and policy, in context of restrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.
By the time you’re splitting hairs over “well is it cultural genocide or just systemic crimes against humanity of a specific ethnic group designed to repress their culture [see section 4A: ‘Religious, cultural and linguistic identity and expression’])?”, then I have no respect for your denial.
There are 306 footnotes in that report, often with multiple sources each (this one included), and you managed to claim “this report is based on sources from Zenz” because there’s literally one footnote citing his work there. You literally just 'Ctrl+F’d “Zenz” and and then threw out the entire rest of the report because it was willing to so much as even describe the fact that he tried to estimate the figures absent official ones.
Said citations (in footnote 140; page 17) are used in discussing how: “55. In the absence of officially available data, other researchers have drawn on a combination of sources and data points to assess and estimate the extent of the affected population.” It’s literally just one of (I think) 42 other numbered points trying to discuss “Imprisonment and other forms of deprivation of liberty”. You skipped all of that because you wanted a “gotcha”.
the UN has always explicitly stopped short of calling the situation a genocide.
I’ll say what I said before about this: if you’re going to “um ackshually” a cultural genocide just because the UN calls it likely “crimes against humanity” and intricately discusses the extreme cultural destruction of Uyghurs but doesn’t formally call it a “genocide”, I have zero respect for your denialism.
“Again”? All you showed was a completely out-of-context tweet which expressly denounces Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime – literally comparing their actions to the CCP’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
I don’t know if you just got that screenshot from some random Lemmygrad post or something and never bothered to plumb for the context, but in case you did: how do you square the fact that Adrian Zenz is comparing something he’s clearly made his life’s work to dismantle – China’s systemic persection of the Uyghurs – with the genocidal actions of the Nazi regime as his being a Nazi? I know when I call Donald Trump a neo-Nazi, that’s my way of expressing that I’m a card-carrying Nazi somehow.
All you’ve shown is that the OHCHR report in one footnote out of hundreds cited Zenz who works for a right-wing think tank.
There are also multitudes of Westerner videos having holiday in the area posted on YT (unless they’ve been removed, also Tehran, and other forbidden cities). I don’t expect you to agree but will ask you to give fair consideration.
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The report of the United Nations OHCHR?
By the time you’re splitting hairs over “well is it cultural genocide or just systemic crimes against humanity of a specific ethnic group designed to repress their culture [see section 4A: ‘Religious, cultural and linguistic identity and expression’])?”, then I have no respect for your denial.
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There are 306 footnotes in that report, often with multiple sources each (this one included), and you managed to claim “this report is based on sources from Zenz” because there’s literally one footnote citing his work there. You literally just 'Ctrl+F’d “Zenz” and and then threw out the entire rest of the report because it was willing to so much as even describe the fact that he tried to estimate the figures absent official ones.
Said citations (in footnote 140; page 17) are used in discussing how: “55. In the absence of officially available data, other researchers have drawn on a combination of sources and data points to assess and estimate the extent of the affected population.” It’s literally just one of (I think) 42 other numbered points trying to discuss “Imprisonment and other forms of deprivation of liberty”. You skipped all of that because you wanted a “gotcha”.
I’ll say what I said before about this: if you’re going to “um ackshually” a cultural genocide just because the UN calls it likely “crimes against humanity” and intricately discusses the extreme cultural destruction of Uyghurs but doesn’t formally call it a “genocide”, I have zero respect for your denialism.
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“Again”? All you showed was a completely out-of-context tweet which expressly denounces Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime – literally comparing their actions to the CCP’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
I don’t know if you just got that screenshot from some random Lemmygrad post or something and never bothered to plumb for the context, but in case you did: how do you square the fact that Adrian Zenz is comparing something he’s clearly made his life’s work to dismantle – China’s systemic persection of the Uyghurs – with the genocidal actions of the Nazi regime as his being a Nazi? I know when I call Donald Trump a neo-Nazi, that’s my way of expressing that I’m a card-carrying Nazi somehow.
All you’ve shown is that the OHCHR report in one footnote out of hundreds cited Zenz who works for a right-wing think tank.
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They’re right about Adrian Zenz.
This website renders horribly on my smaller device, perhaps you will consider some of what they say, if it renders week for you: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang
There are also multitudes of Westerner videos having holiday in the area posted on YT (unless they’ve been removed, also Tehran, and other forbidden cities). I don’t expect you to agree but will ask you to give fair consideration.