So many strawmen you could build a veritable scarecrow. Which, ironically, in the Wizard of Oz, didn't have a brain.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Because they are completely uninterested in doing any research. You can build a very, very, good case there is mass ethnic suppression under the auspice of a war on terror without resorting to Zenz, but you have to go find random East and Central Asian studies grad students or independent journalists who spend their time translating weibo posts from random cops in Kashgar or digging through security contracts or writing about surveillance capitalism or various Chinese academics who were warning the region was being in a process of being Palestinized in like 2005, or interviewing old uyghurs who remember the sino-soviet split suppression, all of which never ever makes it onto mainstream news. I mean a hong kong based security company owned by Erik Prince has contracts for various industrial parks in the region, that is not good and you don't have to go to Zenz to find out but you have to actually care about looking around.