Canada's Parliament just voted to declare it a genocide. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uighur-genocide-motion-vote-1.5922711 And I've been seeing a lot of conflicting takes on it on twitter and here. From what I can gather from researching the main issue is lack of indication of full on genocide there, but there also seems to be a fair amount of evidence that these camps do exist. I fail to see how that is "good" as people on this site appear to be indicating?
Here's my effort post which talks about precisely the point you brought up about the definition of genocide being changed for political reasons.
https://hexbear.net/post/87145
oh god the comment section on that is killing me. o7 for the good work, friend
Why is the comment section killing you?
I agree with your premise that genocide is defined according to political concerns and is altered significantly from the original academic definition. I disagree with your conclusion that this means China is actually doing genocide and is just getting off on a technicality.
I think that introducing the context provided by the original academic definition of genocide, and reviewing the history of how that definition has been changed for political reasons actually gives more weight to the argument that China is not carrying out a genocide, and that it is the accusations of genocide that are being wielded for political purposes.
Oh when I looked at it earlier there were a couple Bad Takes comments at the top but I see that the majority of it has evened out. And to be fair, I don't necessarily think that China is committing genocide. I just wanted to point out that using UN definitions shouldn't ever really be taken into account when discussing these things.