Hell yes. Anyone defending China wrt the Uighurs should have to defend why they think it's better than what "Canada" did to their First Nations with their residential school program.
If you can defend that position, fine, but trivializing these massive oppressive state interventions won't age well. Imagine yourself 50 years down the line and Uighur victims of cultural genocide finally get a voice and describe how the lives of their people were destroyed - do you really want to be the person then who had been cheering for China?
Anyone defending China wrt the Uighurs should have to defend why they think it’s better than what “Canada” did to their First Nations with their residential school program.
For one thing, the Canadian schools forbade the First Nations people from speaking their native language and punished infractions harshly, whereas the Xinjiang schools include the native Uyghur languages in the curriculum.
The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age.
A lot of anti-China propaganda is settler colonialist projection. They made similar accusations of cultural genocide against the Soviet Union, because they administrated regions with minority cultures, but they too sought to preserve native cultures in their schools.
What exactly are they doing that is cultural genocide? I have never seen a clear answer that isnt shit like wikipedia claiming that using the majority language of a multiethnic society in schooling is genocidal, which is virtually a universal policy for school systems.
Hell yes. Anyone defending China wrt the Uighurs should have to defend why they think it's better than what "Canada" did to their First Nations with their residential school program.
If you can defend that position, fine, but trivializing these massive oppressive state interventions won't age well. Imagine yourself 50 years down the line and Uighur victims of cultural genocide finally get a voice and describe how the lives of their people were destroyed - do you really want to be the person then who had been cheering for China?
For one thing, the Canadian schools forbade the First Nations people from speaking their native language and punished infractions harshly, whereas the Xinjiang schools include the native Uyghur languages in the curriculum.
A lot of anti-China propaganda is settler colonialist projection. They made similar accusations of cultural genocide against the Soviet Union, because they administrated regions with minority cultures, but they too sought to preserve native cultures in their schools.
What exactly are they doing that is cultural genocide? I have never seen a clear answer that isnt shit like wikipedia claiming that using the majority language of a multiethnic society in schooling is genocidal, which is virtually a universal policy for school systems.
Is "cultural genocide" something from the same realm as "cultural Marxism"? 🤔