r/worldnews - Uighur doctor tells ITV News of disturbing testimonies of 'forced abortions and removal of wombs' in China
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So I hop on reddit (big mistake ik) and I see this headline about China performing forced sterilizations on Uighur women. I look at the article and is there any actual evidence? Of course not. Its some woman in a Turkish nail salon who claims she performed 500 abortions. I'd like to remind you that Uighur birthrates are only down 4% across China, likely a consequence of increased development.*

So how do the top minds at reddit react?

Modern day Nazis

Neo Nazis

I'd go with Turbonazis

And when people challenge this completely unsourced claim....

Skepticism is good but there is no reason to assume things are not worse than what is being reported.

Weird how this accounts ONLY posts are defending the CCP in their 2 years active. Weird considering the CCP has an active social media campaign paying people to deflect and defend them...

Why do people believe things that are likely just propaganda? Is it 9:00 AM at Langley or do all Americans have brainworms?

*Edit: Seems I misinterpreted this stat, the 4% is a national figure not specific to the Uighur people.

  • communistthrowaway69 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Things to remember about Reddit:

    1. It is astroturfed to shit. It is in no way user driven on the main subs.
    2. Its actual userbase self selects into either naive shitlibs or braying chuds. They both want uncontroversial content shoveled into their troughs and only engage to feel validated by it (this is literally the purpose of upvotes and downvotes.)
    3. The two previous combine to create a self contained consent manufacturing environment, which is ideal for marketing or propaganda campaigns. Reddit jokes about a "hive mind," but it's a real thing. The idea is to cultivate a community with a falsely curated consensus that pushes out undesirable narratives.

    This is probably how they make money, and how they pitch themselves to others. It's why they replaced traditional forums that used to do all this independently. Reddit allows manipulation and cultivation of specific subjects that was more or less impossible to do in fragmented bbs communities.