Ok, so I've had a look at the Time article that was linked in the :reddit-logo: post.
What's interesting is that the only link in the article to any supposed evidence of the claim being made is this: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/china-un-experts-alarmed-separation-1-million-tibetan-children-families-and
Notice how it's a dead end with no further links to any actual research on the matter?
I'll happily admit that I suck at the internet so there's a very good chance I'm missing something crucial here, but at first glance this doesn't look very persuasive.
Yeah, that's the thing. I'm not saying that the numbers can't possibly be real because I believe that China could do no wrong, I'm saying that I need to see some receipts.
Maybe there really is source material being referenced, maybe it is even approaching legit (some sociological survey estimating child death over a 100 years and pinning it on the Chinese).
But nobody bothers to maintain these links. Nobody bothers to read past the headline even. Why would they? Either you're eating from their trough of ideology or you aren't.
Ok, so I've had a look at the Time article that was linked in the :reddit-logo: post.
What's interesting is that the only link in the article to any supposed evidence of the claim being made is this: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/china-un-experts-alarmed-separation-1-million-tibetan-children-families-and
Notice how it's a dead end with no further links to any actual research on the matter?
I'll happily admit that I suck at the internet so there's a very good chance I'm missing something crucial here, but at first glance this doesn't look very persuasive.
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I saw that, but the question still remains: Why are none of the citations in the PDF linked in neither the Time article or the ohchr press release?
Sure is funny how you're expected to do so much digging to get to any of the actual research (if there even is any) :curious-marx:
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Yeah, that's the thing. I'm not saying that the numbers can't possibly be real because I believe that China could do no wrong, I'm saying that I need to see some receipts.
Nah. This is pretty normal.
Maybe there really is source material being referenced, maybe it is even approaching legit (some sociological survey estimating child death over a 100 years and pinning it on the Chinese).
But nobody bothers to maintain these links. Nobody bothers to read past the headline even. Why would they? Either you're eating from their trough of ideology or you aren't.