• kavila [any]
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    4 years ago

    so the entire argument for this being okay is that uighurs are chinese and uighurstan is part of china?

    you see how that could be debatable for someone who doesn't 100% trust the CCP, right?

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      4 years ago

      Uighurstan is not a historical name for anything, its something that was thought up by separatists that aren't satisfied with an islamic state but want an Uighur ethnostate essentially, bad look.

      • kavila [any]
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        4 years ago

        I was being facetious, "uighurstan" sounds funny

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          4 years ago

          Ah ok, it just set me off since I've heard interviews with separatists who describe it as wanting an ethnostate where even other muslims are either expelled or disenfranchised.

    • KamalaHarrisPOTUS [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      uighurstan

      extremely disrespectful to advocate for ethnonationalism for an ethnicity you cant even spell or know the actual name of the claimed (and hugely unpopular separatist movement)

      • kavila [any]
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        4 years ago

        more disrespectful than calling uighur women "baby-making machines"?

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          What are you smoking because your inability to understand words is making me want to have some

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          4 years ago

          They explicitly describe them as no longer having that role, this is a phrased used by fucking Amnesty International and the BBC against countries like Iran, like fucking Business times does this its a common phrase.

    • CyberPoliceUnit1312 [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      I mean I'm a no nation's no border proponent myself, but I think that'll be possible once capitalism is overcome. So I see how it's debateable.

      Looking at the major support China has from other Muslim countries (that arent US aligned) gives some comfort. China did had a uighur extremist/suicide bombing problem a few years back and had to do something. Also when Azerbaijan or France does reeducation camps it's not met with this much skepticism. China will be shortly/is the new world hegemon and you will see a lot of antagonization against that in the western world