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I should probably check to see what South China Morning Post has to say about it. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Honest question- are there mass killings as well? I did not follow this topic for a while, but I thought it is only mass ~~incarceration~~ reeducation campaign.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

There are multiple ways of making a people disappear

Simply killing the people, this most agreed definition of genocide (shoah, armenians)
Sterilizing everyone (various indigenous people like in Canada). You don't kill anyone but you enfringe on the right to have kids. And you basically make a people disappear in a couple generations.
Forced assimilation. The people are not killed and their genes stay in the pool, but their culture die off. Often accompanied by bad treatment, kidnapping etc. Sometimes called culturcide or ethnocide.

All three are considered genocide but the gravity of each can be debatted.

As I understand in Xinjiang, the third one seems confirmed, the second one possibly, and the first one probably not. Feel free to correct me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Is it a genocide if genes are not destroyed? It is forceful cultural assimilation. Not everything bad has to be called genocide. There are other evils in the world, some of them are similar.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Shhhh. It's called a motte and bailey tactic. Come out strong with claims of genocide, but when you can't back them up, oh no, it was alwyas a Cultural genocide. Then when an actual genocide happens in Palestine, you can deflect by saying Let's not forget about the other "genocides"! All Genocides Matter!

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