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.
If I was talking to someone purporting to be a victim or otherwise traumatized by this, I would be sensitive (and probably keep my mouth shut for the most part because I am bad at being sensitive). We however are just spectators to news reports afaik and I have nothing but disdain for the idea that we need to practice "sensitivity" instead of actually interrogating the reporting on this subject that has already seen wildly distorted reporting in the past.
It's literally a core element of atrocity propaganda that it is deeply uncomfortable and socially stigmatized to question it. If we were receiving testimony from Nayirah, we should be gentle and reserved. If we are reading about the hearings and you tell me to be sensitive when it's just uninvolved people talking amongst each other, I would call you a useful idiot and a mark.
Calling "idiot" ableist and insinuating that it is a slur is completely ridiculous. Do you mean because of, like, 1920s IQ testing that used such terms to describe low scorers? "Useful idiot" is essentially a politically-specific version of calling someone a "dupe", it has nothing to do with mental disability except on an etymological level.
Anyway, I consider false and slanted accusations coming from the west about its greatest opponent to be something that it does with purpose and therefore something we should be wary of being duped by.
I could say you are being insensitive for spending energy thinking about a mass surveillance campaign when there is a very obvious campaign by a certain other country that has killed five or more Muslims for every one China has surveiled. The vast majority of us agree that China's campaign in Xinjiang isn't exactly squeaky clean but every minute spent fixating on that past plain acknowledgement is a minute spent apologizing for US genocide.
Typically you don't exclusively round up, however
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Funny how being conscientious leads to the same tactics as being alarmist :thonk:
No way they could just round to the nearest value and say "about" or "at least".
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If I was talking to someone purporting to be a victim or otherwise traumatized by this, I would be sensitive (and probably keep my mouth shut for the most part because I am bad at being sensitive). We however are just spectators to news reports afaik and I have nothing but disdain for the idea that we need to practice "sensitivity" instead of actually interrogating the reporting on this subject that has already seen wildly distorted reporting in the past.
It's literally a core element of atrocity propaganda that it is deeply uncomfortable and socially stigmatized to question it. If we were receiving testimony from Nayirah, we should be gentle and reserved. If we are reading about the hearings and you tell me to be sensitive when it's just uninvolved people talking amongst each other, I would call you a useful idiot and a mark.
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Calling "idiot" ableist and insinuating that it is a slur is completely ridiculous. Do you mean because of, like, 1920s IQ testing that used such terms to describe low scorers? "Useful idiot" is essentially a politically-specific version of calling someone a "dupe", it has nothing to do with mental disability except on an etymological level.
Anyway, I consider false and slanted accusations coming from the west about its greatest opponent to be something that it does with purpose and therefore something we should be wary of being duped by.
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I could say you are being insensitive for spending energy thinking about a mass surveillance campaign when there is a very obvious campaign by a certain other country that has killed five or more Muslims for every one China has surveiled. The vast majority of us agree that China's campaign in Xinjiang isn't exactly squeaky clean but every minute spent fixating on that past plain acknowledgement is a minute spent apologizing for US genocide.
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Why post it in /c/acab if your intent was to share and discuss news? The comm choice is definitely a deliberate insinuation.
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