That’s the western claim, but Xinjiang is a special province of China called “autonomous region”, with more powers to local politics than most others. Uyghur people can study Uyghur language at school (unlike for exmaple Occitanian people in France) and their culture is preserved. You wanna see a cultural genocide in real time? Look up the population of Occitanian speakers over the past 100 years and the French policy towards Occitanian.
You’re not categorizing genocides properly
The Uyghurs don’t have their own news agencies, and they’re not being splattered over the streets like Palestinians
It’s a cultural genocide, it was more like what the US did to the natives. Forced education, over surveillance and policing, forced marriages…
They’ve backed off on it, and it’s better than killing people… But it definitely isn’t good
That’s the western claim, but Xinjiang is a special province of China called “autonomous region”, with more powers to local politics than most others. Uyghur people can study Uyghur language at school (unlike for exmaple Occitanian people in France) and their culture is preserved. You wanna see a cultural genocide in real time? Look up the population of Occitanian speakers over the past 100 years and the French policy towards Occitanian.
Yes, they have largely stopped doing it, which is good.
No, it’s not good that it’s happening somewhere else. I haven’t heard about that at all. Maybe we should make it an issue so they stop too???
This is not a zero sum game. I don’t care what France is doing when I’m talking about China or vice versa, I just want less bad things in the world