How I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs
www.theguardian.com
The long read: After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashed

a completely unsourced rant, from the same people that peddled the 'Iraq has WMD's' bullshit.

Some names have been changed.

Was Adrien Zenz one of them?

  • BillyMays [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Don’t really feel like parsing the story and finding the nuggets of truth when it all seems like a ridiculous story written by western propaganda

    • Cayman [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      the real answer is to not read anything in case it might be western propaganda

      • abdul [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Especially if there’s a chance you find out the government you support is engaging in ethnic cleansing and religious persecution.

        • PowerUser [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Does critical support not exist? The only effect of me, a person in a western country, criticising China is to support what military action that will be used ostensibly to address these, while the country I live in that actually does clearly documented war crimes gets to continue on the same path.

          • Sealand_macronation [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            The only effect of me, a person in a western country, criticising China is to support what military action

            these radlibs claim to be anti-imperialist but they're obviously not

          • abdul [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Why would you want to lend any form of support to religious persecution of any kind

              • abdul [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                Eh. I come to this site in spurts. It’s definitely true that Chinese religious persecution is an issue that matters a lot to me, since ultimately it’s what taught me that I’m just not a communist and have to find some other form of leftism to associate with.

            • PowerUser [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Because, if you had read my post and responded in good faith, the way that religious persecution is addressed has resulted in quite a few deaths of those persecuted.

              • abdul [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                So if no one is being killed, it’s not religious persecution. Is that what you are saying

            • RedFoundry [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              You wouldn't know persecution if it actually affected you.