the craziest thing is all they have to do is lessen their rhetoric and it wouldn't be as blatantly absurd. But the absurdity is the point. It cannot be "hey this is prejudiced policing" it MUST be a super holocaust. Because if China is a rational actor then there is no excuse for completely shutting out any talk of compromise or coexistence
Right? There are legitimate critiques to be made of abuses and unjust treatment. Rounding up random people, detaining them for months, and making them sing bad nationalist songs? Wth? And there's important questions to ask about the counter terrorism actions by states, how public safety and stability should be weighed against the freedom of the people and their agency.
And since that's all complicated and nuanced and also draws western atrocities during the GWOT in to contrast with the PRC's counter-terrorism program in Xinjiang they have to scream Genocide and fervently never learn anything about the situation.
The Xinjiang thing is incredible. Noted genocide deniers literally the UN human rights office out there denying genocides, amirite liberals?
the craziest thing is all they have to do is lessen their rhetoric and it wouldn't be as blatantly absurd. But the absurdity is the point. It cannot be "hey this is prejudiced policing" it MUST be a super holocaust. Because if China is a rational actor then there is no excuse for completely shutting out any talk of compromise or coexistence
Right? There are legitimate critiques to be made of abuses and unjust treatment. Rounding up random people, detaining them for months, and making them sing bad nationalist songs? Wth? And there's important questions to ask about the counter terrorism actions by states, how public safety and stability should be weighed against the freedom of the people and their agency.
And since that's all complicated and nuanced and also draws western atrocities during the GWOT in to contrast with the PRC's counter-terrorism program in Xinjiang they have to scream Genocide and fervently never learn anything about the situation.