How I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs
www.theguardian.com
The long read: After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashed

a completely unsourced rant, from the same people that peddled the 'Iraq has WMD's' bullshit.

Some names have been changed.

Was Adrien Zenz one of them?

  • BillyMays [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I think criticism is fair and I would be willing to criticize them, but this story is so obviously made up. Go read it. You’ll see

    • This [it/its]
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      4 years ago

      Her description matches even what the internal Chinese documents reveal. Do you think she faked her disappearance for two years and made this story up out of whole cloth?

      • BillyMays [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Don’t really feel like parsing the story and finding the nuggets of truth when it all seems like a ridiculous story written by western propaganda

        • Cayman [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          the real answer is to not read anything in case it might be western propaganda

          • abdul [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Especially if there’s a chance you find out the government you support is engaging in ethnic cleansing and religious persecution.

            • PowerUser [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Does critical support not exist? The only effect of me, a person in a western country, criticising China is to support what military action that will be used ostensibly to address these, while the country I live in that actually does clearly documented war crimes gets to continue on the same path.

              • Sealand_macronation [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                The only effect of me, a person in a western country, criticising China is to support what military action

                these radlibs claim to be anti-imperialist but they're obviously not

              • abdul [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                Why would you want to lend any form of support to religious persecution of any kind

                  • abdul [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    Eh. I come to this site in spurts. It’s definitely true that Chinese religious persecution is an issue that matters a lot to me, since ultimately it’s what taught me that I’m just not a communist and have to find some other form of leftism to associate with.

                • RedFoundry [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  You wouldn't know persecution if it actually affected you.

                • PowerUser [they/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  Because, if you had read my post and responded in good faith, the way that religious persecution is addressed has resulted in quite a few deaths of those persecuted.

                  • abdul [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    So if no one is being killed, it’s not religious persecution. Is that what you are saying