If so, was it polled somewhere?

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      Why are you linking an actual propaganda thinktank as an example as of Uyghur Genocide?

      You could link any source, but you link one that is staffed by people who's careers have been purely to lie about American's enemies and push American interests?? I hope you're a little sharper than that and you're just linking that because you hope other people will swallow anything.

      "HEY GUYS THIS ORGANIZATION THAT IS PAID TO TELL ME THAT CHINA IS BAD, GET THIS, SAYS CHINA IS BAD!!"

      Come on bud.

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          • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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            It isn't the government, and the sources cited within are very good. Would you only accept China or Russia's word for it? Or are western sources okay?

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              • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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                Is there any way I can convince you China is sterilizing and reeducating massive numbers of people in interment camps against their will? It seems like you've just said everything is untrustworthy.

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                  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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                    official government papers

                    What government? It seems like the website you cited disregarded sources because they were from governments. Do you need Chinese government documents specifically?

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                  China is sterilizing

                  I want you to think critically about this one. What people point to is an uptick in IUD insertions.

                  We have seen what sterilization compaigns in other countries look like, such as forced hysterectomies in the US and chemical castration in Israel. IUDs are birth control, they don't sterilize the patient. An appropriately-trained doctor can safely remove one in just a few minutes and I don't think you even need equipment to do so!

                  Literally even if we were imagining China was forcing women to get IUDs, which it isn't, that's not sterilizing them! Those women would not be sterilized!

                  But this is part of the endless layers of warping and misrepresentation that make things go from "uptick in IUD insertions"

                  to Zenz exaggerating the rate by a literal order of magnitude

                  to hack journalists doing circular citations of Associated Press, etc. making sinister insinuations

                  to people who don't follow this very closely saying "sterilizing"

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      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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        Both the US state department and the CIA have had to acknowledge that there is no genocide going on in Xinjiang

        That's very misleading. They say they have insufficient proof to say it is racially motivated. (Which is a prerequisite for genocide) But there is certainly great oppression happening there.

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          • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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            Forced sterilisation (birth rates are down 60% vs about 10% for the rest of China) and forceful reeducation? They don't care about the language as much as the shared cultural identity separate from China.

            • RedDawn [he/him]
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              Birth rates were already much lower in the rest of China, did the Han do a genocide on themselves first lol or is declining birth rate the norm in a country with massively improved economic conditions and development, and has that begun to affect the more rural regions of China?

                • RedDawn [he/him]
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                  No, that isn’t a clarification. You’re not understanding that the birth rates in the rest of China were already much lower prior to the 10% decrease. The Uighur population has been growing even as the Han population has leveled out, because the Han already had lower birth rates for decades. The Uighur were exempted from the one child policy as well. So yeah, the rest decreased 10%, there was less room to decrease in the first place because birth rates were already very low!

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              • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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                I'm trying to talk in good faith, but I don't have 10 hours to read about it. I've only researched about 1 or 2 hours. But I'm definitely not just taking your website at face value.

                If you want to call the discussion off, I'm fine with that. This thread has given an adequate sample of hexbear ideology.

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            • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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              Why would the CPC, in the same breath, exempt the Uyghurs from the One Child Policy but also force sterilization?

                • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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                  I'm Chinese and literally grew up with Uyghurs downstairs in Hubei, they and the Hui family around the block were the only ones with more than 1 kid.

                  If you're referring to something Adrian Zenz said about 80% of new IUDs being sold in Xinjiang, he misread a decimal point 328,475 IUDs in Xinjiang out of 3,774,318. 8.7% of IUDs placed in China were in Xinjiang.

                  News quoted his 80% figure before he had to retract it, but it's already in the back of people's minds that China's forcibly sterilizing Uyghurs.