• felixwhynot@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Can you provide a source for your claim that “western media has backed away from the claim of Uighur genocide”?

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      Even two and a half years ago, AP news - one of the leading proponents of the genocide theory - was already walking back their claims from genocides to just nebulous oppression (and even saying that was over, so don’t ask for current evidence).

      Can you find many examples of mainstream media from the last 6 months still claiming an ongoing genocide?

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        11 months ago

        This article seems to say that China has shifted to subtler methods of subjugation, possibly due to Western sanctions. Not that it was fabricated.

        I’m not here to argue about the definition of genocide. IMHO, if there’s smoke, there’s fire.

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          11 months ago

          asks for evidence that mainstream media has backed away from genocide claims.

          Gets given an example of one of the most gung-ho on the genocide theory outlets already backing away from the claim years ago, instead falling back to nebulous claims of conveniently hard to demonstrate oppression.

          “Well that just proves there is a genocide!”

          Least bad faith sinophobe. How about you provide recent sources like I asked.

          IMHO, if there’s smoke, there’s fire.

          Big believer in the white genocide in South Africa then? Found those WMDs in Iraq?

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          Subjugation like… By applying the same standard to ethnic minorities that they do to the Han majority? People don’t realize how far affirmative action in China used to go. There were protests against it. Weibo kept exploding complaining about it.