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I already gave my sources on Xinjiang, so I won't retread old ground.
The nordic countries thay have high scores on the IAHD index are a part of western imperialism. They subsidize their safety nets by plundering the surplus value of the south, and rely on institutions like the IMF and NATO to protect them and facilitate their plunder. China is not imperialist.
This is your argument? That this is allowed in a great example of Chinese socialism?
2022 report by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) found that China's arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang may constitute "crimes against humanity," citing credible evidence of torture, forced labor, and severe rights violations.
While the UN report did not formally label the actions as "genocide," it highlighted evidence of coercive policies designed to suppress cultural and religious identity.
Key Findings of the UN Report:
Brother. China sucks. The US sucks. Just get over it.
Brother, CIA shenanigans in Xinjiang sucked.
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Relatedly, US shenanigans in Hong Kong five years ago and in Beijing in 1989 also sucked.
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Edit to add: The link to images from Beijing is broken because Reddit has since censored that entire subreddit.
Holyy shit that's a lot of reading. I got through a lot of it so far and honestly, I'm reaching a point where I don't think I'm smart enough to have any real commentary. I will say the sources are pretty questionable. One of the sites you listed has a .cn address so it's directly controlled by the Chinese government lol. Medium and YouTube and a website claiming to be an independent journalist..
This is probably a conversation for another time, but what if we've entered a period where no information I have or you have is plain fact? It's increasingly likely. We could be both horribly wrong with no other way to prove anything except what is happening with the 5ft circle around us. It makes sense if most media available is controlled by two opposed governments trying to influence their people a certain way that neither have good intel.
It makes sense to me that a country attempting to unify itself in terms of language, economy, politics, etc. would be harsh and even persecute minority religions. It has happened everywhere in history. But it also makes sense the US would deploy destabilizing propaganda and assets into all foreign nations.
Anyways, I'm fine admitting this is beyond my paygrade as a socio-economic and political enthusiast.
I'll concede on the idea that neither of us were there and both of us believe our sources are correct.
I don‘t expect you or anyone to turn an instant 180º away from a lifetime of understanding. It took me well over a decade, first because I had to look into most of it myself, and second because it took a lot of evidence for me to accept them and reject the many layers of unexamined priors I’d grown up with.
Another place to start, rather than diving head-first into the China question, is the history of propaganda, which developed starting in the early 20^th^ century in the US.
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Wow I'm discovering we're more alike by the second. I'm certainly in my personal journey of discovering truth beneath the corporate fed slop. I unsubscribed to NYT in 2017.
I have thought for years that many people bounce their minds between the left and right extremes only to falsely convince themselves the middle must be the reasonable place to be when in fact the truth or ethics are on a different spectrum entirely.
I'm thankful my brain has a natural tendency to know logic and morality that aides my search, but you're right. It's questioning everything from the beginning just to have a starting picture. Propaganda from childhood forward. History written by the victors.
Manufactured consent is the hot topic amongst some of my friends at the moment. We've abandoned all "sides" in US politics searching for a solution to the ever strengthening tyranny of evil.
Thank you for sharing these sources and information. I'll happily research further.
Edit to add: China does have its problems/contradictions, which are fine to critique, but first one has to sift out the propaganda-fabricated problems from the real ones.
You asked an AI without even reading China's response to the allegations? You just had an AI summarize the allegations alone, without reading China's counter-evidence. I asked you to read the OHCHR report so you could understand the allegations, not as definitive evidence, which China's response thoroughly debunks a large majority of it or contextualizes.
Plus, I'm not the one you were responding to here, I linked you Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation.
Sorry, I thought you or someone else had said the UN report confided it wasn't genocide. So I went and found the UN report to point out what it did say. If that wasn't you, I apologize. There are a lot of parallel conversations going on.
But still, wouldn't the UN collective organization have more credibility than the individual accused nation when claiming their side of things?
"The man accused of says he didn't do it. The group of investigators determined it was voluntary manslaughter.."
Since you want to discuss the details of the report and China's response, I will look into both. Please hold.
For some reason your link is not working btw. I will copy the title and search for it.
What matters is the evidence. The UN is toothless and dominated by western interests, and the majority of muslim nations have come out in favor of China's evidence over the UN.
I feel like this article explains it in a way that reveals a bit more of the harsh reality, but still supports your claim of Muslim nations' support of China's policies. It's also from Medium.
https://medium.com/the-diplomatic-pouch/analysis-why-muslim-countries-in-the-middle-east-support-chinese-atrocities-in-xinjiang-f4ec7d4bea48
They write plainly about the support being due to economic ties, fractured Muslim subdivisions, and "agreeing as a way to survive."
At this point our source is the same and still contradicts itself.
Again, I'll concede since I don't have a more credible answer.
This is largely someone trying to explain away something and push a narrative. Again, read Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation.