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

    It's not necessarily whataboutism so much as it's something out of control and suffering due to American foreign policy is (more) in our control to expose to an apathetic public and so on.

    This is Chomsky's argument from the late 80s about why he's fine with Russian activists in Russia but he doesn't really care what Russia does because he can't do anything about it, meanwhile he can work to effect political discourse in the US. In some ways it's the opposite of whataboutism.