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Uyghur "Genocide" is so hardwired to people's brains, how do any of y'all try convince others that they're believing propaganda? (hexbear.net)
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It's really frustrating, I was talking to someone about how successful China has been in de-radicalization of reactionaries. But they responded to this by saying they're only successful because, and I quote "put them all in concentration camps and killed them"

Has anyone here been successful in deprogramming people about this topic? If so any good sources I can use to dissuade them? I tried telling them that the UN report, if you read it, just says that there's concerns about abuse by internment offcials, and there's no evidence of genocide. But when I say this they just dismiss it as if the UN is controlled by the PRC. It's like a religion to liberals to believe anything bad about China and can get really frustrating.

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago

how magnanimous of you to admit that you don't think china has death camps.

if you knew fuck all about the region besides what the US State Department wants you to know, western asia has been a locus for US backing of opium gangsters and religious extremists for over 50 years. western backing of the same has been going on there for over 100 years, all in service of destabilizing the eastern powers at all costs. it was western-backed psychos that burned down thousands of schools to prevent literacy among women, and opium warlords that threw acid in the face of women politicians.

the only reason you can even name an ethnic group in western china is because china has figured out how to stop it from working, and the west is furious at losing their #1 strategy.

go close your own literal death campus and make some actual meaningful gesture towards respecting human rights, then you can weigh in on what is happening in places where there isn't a Burger King.