America is genocidal, sure, but so is every single other society in the history of civilization. America is exceptional because of the technology and the art it contributed to genocide, which is the goal of every civiliztion, remember. Pointing out the difference in scale of US atrocities just prevents us working together for greater justice.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/6343679 https://hexbear.net/comment/4329347

  • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Remember that the claims of genocide are from a man who believes that he received a message from capital G God himself to destroy China, and that the initial claims to genocide were based on him sending someone to Xinjiang, going to eight tiny rural villages, and asking a single person in each village how many people they thought were taken away to be reeducated, before extrapolating that number to the entirety of Xinjiang.

    It's a methodology so bafflingly bad it wouldn't be accepted anywhere academically, but for some reason you "uhhh citations please??" dorks fucking eat it up.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      As far as I remember no one actually traveled to those eight villages, the interviews were done over telephone lol