Its not that this isn't true, its the scale of the problem, and the silence when its other Muslims, in Palestine or Myanmar, etc.

      • NationalizeMSM [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        The claim is that China is enforcing draconian laws limiting births. So having too many kids or too frequently is punished with abortions. Honestly, it's probably happening. Its just that its getting such a massive signal boost that's the problem. Like, what's going on is Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India or Israel? They're our allies, so we won't say anything. I've actually been to Xinjiang and have been following stories from there for a while, and there is definitely an ongoing project to quash the Uyghur culture. The worst i read about was in 2009 or so, when they relocated people from their 1000 year old homes in the old city of kashgar to high rise apartment buildings. Then they demolished the old city citing the earthquake risk. Protests ensured and the police used live ammo and killed over 100 people. Its not good.

        • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Back near the Beijing Olympics my mother spent some time in China and even back then the one child rule wasn't this hard law like it was hyped up to be for me growing up. Not that the law didn't have issues and favored the rich, but that's hellworld.

            • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Have you listened to right wing discourse around abortion in America? It's all forced to them. This is literally a right wing talking point and people are eating it up because it's China.

                • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I'm just trying to point out that the phrase "punished with abortions" is right wing propaganda. The same discourse happens in America around abortion.

                  The right wing sees it as evil, so they call it a punishment instead of a liberty. Providing access and infrastructure for abortions in a place that had none before is not genocide.