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.
The “leaked” documents from the program shows Xì allegedly giving a speech in which he states that he’s inspired by the American war on terror response to terrorism. No one seems to mention this at all lol. I’m sure racial profiling, discrimination, abused, etc. happen because imbalanced power dynamics attract a certain type of person, and because many of the central Xinjiang leaders are Han. But to suggest a literal genocide is happening is absurd.
I don’t even think you need to go for leaked statements. China in the early 2000’s had an extremist group in the area added to an international terrorist watchlist, and it was only removed a bit before Uyghur genocide shit started up. You can go through the list of terror attacks in the region and see the official response frame it in terms of trying to stop terrorism.
China does a lot of cool shit but they also suffer from some of the same flaws that plague American politics. Ie in the book “Blockchain chicken farm”, the author interviews some local Chinese police on surveillance and facial recognition and the Chinese cops flatly say they’re trying to catch up to American police in terms of surveillance.
I’m sorry this is all so vague, I had my brain power sapped by redditors this morning.
May I see this?