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  • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think "cultural genocide" and "ethnically-targeted destruction of an ethnicity’s culture" would imply things like banning religious and cultural norms and practices which amounts to the destruction of their cultural and ethnic identities. I dont think any of this indicates anything like that since people are still practicing and studying their religion and culture openly, the language is an official language and translated along Mandarin everywhere in public, mosques are not being closed down, Uyghurs as an ethnic group are not displaced and segregated.

    I think theres lots of conflating things happening in this narrative that always seem to amount to broad speculations that get applied to the entire situation. If some people are actually oppressed and imprisoned than everything becomes a concentration camp where Uyghurs are taken to be genocided, even if the vast amount of any established center was always to actually provide means for people to study and get job training to improve their economic disparity which was always at the center of this entire conflict. I think its the same sort of broad speculative narratives applied to the idea of "cultural genocide" as well.