Declining birthrate can mean something -- in Zenz's case he specifically claims forced sterilization (bullshit, obviously) -- but the birthrate merely declining is assigned as the corresponding number of "deaths" in pop-historiography of communist famines without any attempt to justify the causal mechanism. It is 100% statistical sleight-of-hand that makes Zenz look like a master sophist by contrast.
No, because then they would also count any decline in the birthrate as also being part of it.
Then again, calling it a genocide isn't the worst thing when you consider who died the most under US covid policy
I mean, they generally do. The decline in birthrate is the entire reason Zenz calls 'genocide' in Xinjiang.
Declining birthrate can mean something -- in Zenz's case he specifically claims forced sterilization (bullshit, obviously) -- but the birthrate merely declining is assigned as the corresponding number of "deaths" in pop-historiography of communist famines without any attempt to justify the causal mechanism. It is 100% statistical sleight-of-hand that makes Zenz look like a master sophist by contrast.