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.

  • TheOldRazzleDazzle [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    How is your family even aware of it? I'm sure the rhetoric is going to intensify but I still haven't heard a lot of ground swell about this in the media at large. It's mostly been grandstanding Mike Pompeo and Ted Cruz types that have been the most invested in this.

    • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Really? I've been hearing about it quite a lot for the past 2 years now.

      • TheOldRazzleDazzle [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I've been hearing about it since the 2009 Urumqi riots that led to Facebook being banned--mostly because I was in Southwest China the summer it happened--but I've only seen people really start to care after Trump and the rest of the western world ramped up the Sinophobia to deflect blame for their complete bungling of Covid.