Police in the Xinjiang region of China rely on a master list of 50,000 multimedia files they deem “violent and terrorist” to flag Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim residents for interrogation. An investigation found that over nine months, police conducted nearly 11 million searches of a total of 1.2 million mobile phones in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital city of 3.5 million residents.
You'll notice I don't remember the committee's name either, and yet that didn't lead me to parrot the wildly distorted characterization that "the UN" said such-and-such like I was reading off of a Yahoo News article.
Don't worry, even if I never saw the username I would have responded the same way, because my contempt is for what you are saying now, not whatever it was that you said before.
I am saying that you are being uncritical of the reporting as though all the past bullshit reports taught you nothing. Yes, if HRW was known to be giving us the best representation of what happened, that would reflect a very serious problem. We do not know that they are.
Yeah, I read reddit, a lot of people thought that it was straight up killing all Uyghers. I had someone earnestly claim to me that it was worse than anything the Romans did in my personal sphere.
I do find official sources to be less bloodthirsty than your average Australian. Most Australians believe the 10k Tiananmen square number, even though official sources have walked it back.
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"The UN" made no such claim, a commitee within the UN headed by a Brit made the claim, but the UN in general did not even nominally sign on to it.
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You'll notice I don't remember the committee's name either, and yet that didn't lead me to parrot the wildly distorted characterization that "the UN" said such-and-such like I was reading off of a Yahoo News article.
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You remember that interaction better than I do.
Don't worry, even if I never saw the username I would have responded the same way, because my contempt is for what you are saying now, not whatever it was that you said before.
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I am saying that you are being uncritical of the reporting as though all the past bullshit reports taught you nothing. Yes, if HRW was known to be giving us the best representation of what happened, that would reflect a very serious problem. We do not know that they are.
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Yeah, I read reddit, a lot of people thought that it was straight up killing all Uyghers. I had someone earnestly claim to me that it was worse than anything the Romans did in my personal sphere.
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I do find official sources to be less bloodthirsty than your average Australian. Most Australians believe the 10k Tiananmen square number, even though official sources have walked it back.