I have a lot of very left-leaning friends (although most of them are still liberals, which I am not of course pls believe me) and they're all heavily anti-China.

Occasionally I push back on this and they always bring up the Uyghur "genocide". As a German person, I feel insanely uncomfortable claiming that there is not actually a genocide happening. And like, as a matter of fact, I don't know what the truth, but at the same time I don't feel comfortable just letting US propaganda go uncontested.

I am compiling my own list of sources but I would greatly appreciate help on this, please give me the clearest sources and arguments you have, because this is an important topic to me.

Just saying "RFA and Adrian Zenz bad" isn't very convincing, not even to myself, the best I have is the letter by the Muslim nations.

  • shitstorm [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's honestly just not the hill to die on. There's no way to argue about it with liberals and come out looking good.

      • shitstorm [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I will look into Zenz, anything to discredit NYT. Anyhow my main point was I'm not gonna waste breath saying "its internment, not genocide" if I think both are wrong. I just say that there are things I disagree with their government does, but that's no reason to disavow the good parts of China. I'd stack the China's Muslim bodycount against the US's any day.