i tried searching through some databases and no like actual research reports came up on it, so like can we just use that as a be-all-end-all?
i tried searching through some databases and no like actual research reports came up on it, so like can we just use that as a be-all-end-all?
A good one is just talking about yemen. "If these politicians care about human rights so much, there's something very easy they can do: stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, stop giving Saudi Arabia intelligence, etc. American arm companies have made 13 billion dollars off of the Yemen war. 20 million Yemenis need human rights assistance according to the UN. But they don't. So I don't really trust that they genuinely care about those other Muslims." Denying a purported genocide looks to the regular person similar to holocaust denial. It's a lot easier to be like "look, idk what's going on over there, but there's another group of Muslims that western countries could help much easier, but they don't. They should. Why don't they? Isn't that weird?"
This is the only answer that does it for me personally. As someone who's very cautious to jump to conclusions, I basically have given up understanding what's going on (maybe the propaganda got to me?) But luckily I can be 100% sure that A. America genocides muslims every day and B. if China is genociding muslims too there's nothing we can reasonably do and C. if an action should be taken, it should be to stop US militarism. This is why I've tried not to get wrapped up in this struggle session, because I think any leftist can unite behind this idea.
Of course this logic assumes that you don't actively support bombing the middle east.
The best thing is that the "camps" were all shut down like a year and a half ago anyways so it's not even like it's a current problem...
There was some internal pushback against them and the XAR government switched from detention to poverty relief, jobs programs, and education. Which is why you see the narrative pivoting to things like "these people have jobs at cotton plantations and cotton is genocide".