It’s all allegations, they never even confirmed any cultural genocide taking place in China. Why doesn’t the US just send a NATO rep to investigate and confirm or deny any events taking place?

Oh right, western propaganda

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    cultural genocide

    The great thing about this turn-of-phrase is that they're just described industrialization.

    China is guilty of doing capitalism in their western frontier.

    • Poetjustice [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      White people have done a cultural genocide everytime they open a shitty gastropub in a Black or Brown neighborhood

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        White people have done a cultural genocide everytime they open a shitty gastropub

    • Prole_Strongman [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      The presenter labeled it as “cultural genocide”.

      But you’re right, industrialization in general has been a cultural genocide or you could even say cultural revolution. For better or for worse

    • stench [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I might be remembering this wrong but didn't the the guy who coined the term genocide include cultural genocide in his initial definition but then a bunch of western states pressured him to remove the cultural aspect because they were all guilty of doing it themselves?

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yes, the definition was originally written to include things like American Indians/First Nations peoples having their kids taken away and sent to boarding school where their traditional religion/language/contact with their tribe was all banned. That stuff did eventually make its way into the United Nations definition, but only after those who were historically guilty of it had all stopped doing it. Also importantly, the definition never included sending adults to night school.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Another point about the cultural genocide that gets blased on Western Social Media (especially in muslim immigrant circles, where insane propaganda is almost the norm rather than the exception) is that it assumes that all Uighyrs wants to live like Saudis, with a very strict interpretation of Sunnah and islamic jurisprudence in general. However a lot of the Sunnah is obviously based on traditional arab customs, since that is where the prophet Mohammed actually lived. This has historically clashed with the Turkic peoples of central and eastern asia, who have taken influence from a wide variety of different cultures, most notably Persian and Chinese, due to the mongol empires / khanates. One of the things that China was critized for in 2019/2020, was their ban on long beards, because those are mostly associated with Arabic culture, as opposed to Turkic culture. Alledgedly Xinjiang doesn't really have a tradition for the same long beards that you see in the middle east, but when the wahabism was gaining ground in Xinjiang, this started to change. Thus China tried to shut it down, since it was also being practiced by the people who returned from Syria / Afghanistan and had been thoroughly radicalized, and needed to be reeducated.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Wouldn't it be crazy if the US had a roll in cultivating and exporting Wahhabism for the purpose of manipulating geopolitics?

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The thing is, if you're arguing with a liberal, you don't even need to say that American intelligence is actively supporting those freaks. Literally nothing I wrote in my prior post requires you to understand the world beyond anything more than "fun" history facts. I also wrote it partly because I am incredibly annoyed at the propaganda aimed at the elders in every mosque in my country.