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?

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The story sounds pretty legit

    Yeah, but almost everyone here could write a "pretty legit" sounding account of, say, a DPRK prison camp by reading a few articles that have already been published and embellishing the details. All this without even having set foot in Korea.

    • dukeofprunes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      it happened to me, kim made me eat dog poo and said my hairstyle was bad

    • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      In the case you can also find the daughters profile, and she talks about her mom, so when I mean pretty legit, I mean, this woman has most likely been in a reeducation camp and most likely experienced these things

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That just means she was detained in some way. Doesn't prove that anything in the article actually happened, including the throw away line on sterilization.

        • funkfresh [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Providing birth control and education to minorities is a crime against humanity, what they should doing is encouraging them to have children in poverty so they can grow up damaged by their material conditions and locked away in private prisons to be used as a cheap source of labor

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            It's not even that about birth control.

            The author of the article claims she got an injection while in prison. For all we know, it could have just been a flu jab.

            Even if there is a shot you can give a woman to render them permanently infertile (in which case why do women still have to get surgery to get their tubes tied?), and even if the author is now medically infertile as a result, it should be extremely trivial for her to produce a medical certificate or find a physician who can go on record to prove it.

            But that would go against the propaganda tactic of simply begging the question.

            • funkfresh [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Oh yeah I forgot about her. I thought they were talking about that new headline about Uighur women not being "baby making machines" anymore