• Says the OIC.

      Isn’t it odd that the countries that enable genocide and wage war on Muslim countries killing hundreds of thousands in the past decades are somehow very concerned about the welfare of Muslims in China? Even Western-aligned Muslim countries have condemned invasions and war crimes by Western countries, even those with a Western military presence. But somehow they are afraid to condemn China?

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      So on the one hand we have clearly flawed accusations of genocide from a country with a long history of using such accusations to advance it’s own geopolitical goals, fabricated by people who are doing their best to kill Muslims all over the world, but they’re apparently extremely worried about this group for some reason.

      On the other hand we have those dastardly conniving Asians who have the support of 72 filthy untrustworthy Muslim countries saying no genocide is occuring.
      Oh and all the independent observators who have visited and reported no genocide is ongoing. Don’t believe them? Go for yourself! The region is free to travel.

      Yeah real headscratcher. Both sides and so on. Can’t trust anyone.

      Have you actually read the report?
      It’s based on the account of 6 “anonymous” Uyghurs who were asked how many people were disappeared from their village. This number was then used to extrapolate to represent the entire Uyghur population.
      It also argues that children not born, because women have access to contraceptives, are part of the genocide. This is weird because we apparently can’t trust what China says is going on in the region, but we can use their numbers for the region? Okie dokie. Also the Uyghurs were never under the one child policy, which strikes me as counter productive if you wanna genocide a group.

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      Who says they’re being genocided? America?

      You ever met a Uyghur person? The ones I know have issues with what their people went through in the late-2010s but they’re most definitely still very alive and Uyghur.

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        Ok, so Poland seems to recognize it and is not in the “core”…

        Turkey seems to recognize it and is not in the “core” …

        Taiwan seems to recognize it and is not in the “core” …

        Ukraine seems to recognize it and is not in the “core” … Ukraine actually said that after they did China threatened to limit trade and block scheduled delivery of 500,000 covid vaccine doses.

        Czech Republic seems to recognize it and is not in the “core” …

        Actually looking at the countries supporting and not supporting it looks like divide is more between democracies and dictatorships.

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          Mind you, Turkey “recognize” it because of the government’s Pan-Turanist and Pan-Islamist views, not because they actually care to investigate it. Also every Uighur “defector” any political party -which is almost always the reactionary or conservative ones- brings to speak is actually either a fundamentalist terrorist, or never went to Xinjiang in their lifetime.

          Source: I am Turkish.

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            Damn, I’d never even heard of Turanism, though I am a little familiar with the debunked 19th century linguistics.

            Turanism, also known as Turanianism, pan-Turanism or pan-Turanianism, is a pan-nationalist political movement built around pseudoscientific claims of biological and linguistic connections between various ethnic groups of Eurasia. It revolves around the abandoned proposal of a Ural-Altaic language family, which hypothesizes that the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Uralic peoples share Inner and Central Asian origins and therefore close cultural, ethnic, and linguistic bonds. Supporters of Turanism propose political unity among these groups, chiefly to oppose the cultural and political influences of the Indo-Europeans of Europe, West Asia, and South Asia, as well as the Sino-Tibetans of East Asia. The movement emerged in the 19th century to counter pan-nationalist ideologies such as pan-Germanism, and built upon the ideas of pan-Slavism (e.g. the idea of a “Turanian brotherhood and collaboration” was borrowed from the pan-Slavic concept of “Slavic brotherhood and collaboration”).

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              Come to Turkey, it is very popular among our nationalists (about 60% of the population), because Atatürk said it is real.

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          Why do you think post-Warsaw Pact states like Poland, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine fall in line with what the ruling classes of the richest countries want? Could it be that these countries became completely dominated by the Western IMF/NATO protection racket upon seceding? Could it be that there’s been a concerted effort since the beginning of the Cold War to create a class of liberal and fascist collaborators in these countries with the explicit purpose of defeating communism? Should it be surprising that they’re anticommunist as a result?

          Taiwan is probably the most obvious one to choose if I wanted an example of a country (allegedly) with a vested interest in making up human rights violations against China.

          And how can you call the side with the US in it democratic?

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            Why are you changing goal posts? Looks like it is more countries than “the core”.

            Ukraine also showed how China pressured everyone to not vote yes.

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              Ok, the goalposts turned and left us here. What do you want me to say? Looks like Poland, Taiwan, Czechia, Turkey, and Ukraine don’t like China, a phenomenon that I can’t offer an explanation for without being accused of moving the goalposts further.

              If there’s something substantial to what you’re saying (hell you never even made a claim, the original comment in this chain wasn’t even specific about what he believed was or wasn’t true about Uyghurs) it’s on you to bring evidence to the table.

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          Those countries are in the core or the semi-periphery, depending on who you ask. They’re in the liminal space between the core and the periphery. They have “favored vassal” status, and won’t bite the hand that feeds them.

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      He linked you a UN vote where almost all the majority Muslim countries, save for Somalia, voted no or abstained on starting a debate about China’s treatment of the Uyghurs. That’s not China speaking.

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        Is it not? Surely we don’t have to sit here and pretend that United Nation votes aren’t extremely political. Maybe if we were school children playing model UN we might think that but we should all know better right? We know that geopolitics and trade relations usually define UN resolutions more than actual truth does. It’s one of the major faults of the United Nations.

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          You’re right, those filthy stupid brown people just don’t know what’s good for them. They’re only voting like that because China forces them to, otherwise they would definitely agree with the US who demonstrably cares about the well-being of Muslims.

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              What do you mean racism? I’m just following your lead. Can’t trust those heathens to have opinions of their own. It’s really our burden to make sure they make the right decisions.

              Edit: sorry, was I not supposed to say the quiet part of your post out loud?

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                How dare you, in the west you should be racist as long as you absolutely don’t say it at loud.

                We wouldn’t want to openly shame our precious westerners who bring democracyTM to these uncultured savages, would we?

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                There it is again. Wow you sure went to that really fucking fast. I was talking about trade relations and geopolitics. You jumped right to racism. Funny that. Just on the tip of your tongue I guess…

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                  Ok so when white people say China is committing genocide based on 0 evidence, that’s just Reason and Facts. But when the rest of the world says “hey can we move on from this crap” they’re the ones that are acting based on political reasons, blinded by trade relations and geopolitics?

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                  I truly don’t get what you mean, we’re saying the same thing? These Muslims don’t know what’s good for them, they’re stupid, you can’t trust anything they say. Except when they agree with us of course, because we’re rational and good.

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                  Don’t worry bro, these ugly commie are breaking the racists rule. Shh… we can still bring enlighten democracy to those Chinese peasants who don’t know what’s happening in their own country ;)