Millions of Leaked Police Files Detail Suffocating Surveillance of China’s Uyghur Minority
theintercept.com
Invasive digital monitoring and community informants drive a system all too ready to classify Muslims in Ürümqi as extremists and terrorists.

I genuinely went to read this in good faith since it's The Intercept (I know it's not great, but it's not CNN) but decided to do a quick text search for Zenz just to make sure. And of course, the whole fucking thing is full of Zenz.

This is just ridiculous at this point. I really don't want to be a genocide-denier if there is actually one happening, but for fuck's sake this is just ridiculous, LET ME SEE ONE REPORT ON THIS WITHOUT ZENZ ALL OVER IT.

  • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Being "anti-capitalist" doesn't make someone trustworthy. There's a long history of capitalist powers using splits among communists in the imperial core to discredit communist movements outside the imperial core. If you want to make the Xinjiang story believable, it should come from the nominal left.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I only specified that in comparison to Zenz since Zenz is so ideologically anti-communist, and Byler's main work is on the development of capitalism in Xinjiang and its effects on Uighurs.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Being “anti-capitalist” doesn’t make someone trustworthy.

      Awkwardly hides copy of Animal Farm