Among the usual claims about a trillion Uyghurs being murdered in concentration camps and the women being sterilized, the “professor” also claimed that Uyghurs weren’t recognized as one of China’s 55 ethnic minorities (they are) and that Islam is banned in China (it’s not) They didn’t provide any sources too lmao
Yes, they’re a white liberal
No, there wasn’t a single mention of Palestine
How do you become a Professor when you can’t even be bothered to google what the fuck you’re talking about? Does saying “China bad” give you a PhD now? The level of academic dishonesty is staggering, aren’t universities supposed to take this stuff seriously? Surely there must be a way to report professors spreading racist conspiracy theories as fact. It’s not just a political thing, the intellectual laziness is so extreme they cannot even get the most basic background facts right. At this point I would be surprised if they know which continent China is in.
But hey, at least they got to trivialize actual genocides by putting them next to the Uyghur “genocide”
If I pulled any of this shit in a paper - no sources, lies debunked in two seconds - I would at a minimum instantly fail the class and probably face a serious risk of being suspended and/or expelled for academic fraud.
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do you have a link handy?
here:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf
it disproves some of the more extreme claims, but it still doesn’t paint china in a positive light. There are reports of widespread family separation, torture, sexual assault and other nasty stuff
Yeah, as far is I’ve been able to verify, the worst going on there is comparable to shit that goes down at Rikers Island and similarly harsh US jails. Still fucked, though at least it could still reasonably be reined in without having to literally pull companies running them off the stock market
A close example is also how French police operate. Both in respect to Muslims in France, but also the less than lethal brutality used there being more akin to what appears to be happening more than anything close to extermination.
Yeah it’s still large scale policing against a racial minority. Family separation - no kidding, they specifically put (potentially) radicalized people into vocational training boarding schools. Radicals have families too.
Torture - probably, even solitary confinement is torture. Sexual assault, probably too - it’s prison and cops.
The point is that none of these things are genocide (cultural or otherwise), forced labour, or forced sterilization.
Uyghur: “You know what? You make a good point. I’m going to convert from Islam and become an atheist.”
Guard: “Ahh shit. Chang, we got another one who’s gone too far, put him in the re-radicalization program!”