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No, it’s not.
The easiest way to prove this would be to go and speak to a Uyghur. Everyone I’ve ever spoken with has confirmed what is happening to their families back home.
This is a “vocational centre”, pretty nice looking school isn’t it? Very generous of China to offer such friendly reeducation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iyFw8UF85A
That's Carl Sagan describing healthy skepticism.
How do you know that image is what you claim it is?
Do you know the location of the image?
Do you know the photographer?
Do you know when the image was taken?
Do you have any evidence of what that is even an image of?
Perimeter fence of a vocational centre in Dabancheng, Xinjiang. Photo by Thomas Peter on September 4th, 2018.
Tankie fuck probably thinks the Earth is flat because 'muh healthy skepticism can't trust evidence'.
They would deny the earth was round if the United States said it was.
Oh boy here it is
You'll never get that.
The "point of view" is based entirely off unverifiable claims.
At best, you'll get a wall of "articles" that only reference each other in a giant attribution circle. They'll downvote you and call you a tankie all day long but they'll never show you real evidence.
"I'm just asking questions, why are people not wanting to answer my questions? I'm just asking questions"
There isn't enough time in universe to attempt constructive engagement with every genocide denialist out there. If you have access to all the same data and come with an angle "uyghur genocide is CIA story", there's morning to engage with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
Wikipedia is a wonderful online encyclopedia. It's not a source and they don't claim to be a source. It's a starting point for people who want to learn about a topic, it's not evidence of anything.
If you actually go to the sources section of that link you'll see they're all secondary sources. For some reason, nobody can get reliable evidence on what is supposedly one of the biggest human rights violations in history.
The excuse is always that China is so secretive and tightly managed that it's impossible to smuggle actual evidence out of the country. The best we can do is an endless stream of anonymous and semi-anonymous sources that keep changing their story.
Thanks for explaining how an encyclopedia works, I guess.
Of course an encyclopedia is going to cite mostly secondary sources, especially when covering a matter that cannot be proven based on a single account or piece of evidence. That's not some kind of gotcha.
Personally I trust Wikipedia enough to assume they'll cite mostly reliable secondary sources that are based on a significant amount of credible witness accounts and evidence (aka primary sources). Of course a bit of healthy skepticism is a good thing, so if you'd like to take a closer look at Wikipedia's sources and what their claims are based on, more power to you!
I'm curious, how many of the 403 sources cited by Wikipedia did you look at before deciding none of them are based on credible primary sources?
That's the neat part. They don't! Why bother checking things when you can dismiss reality!
I’d have better luck teaching a pig calculus.
You sound just like a Holocaust denialist btw
And where did you hear they were ok? Denial of genocide takes but a little propaganda and a lot of other squashing of news. It'd be a shame if china was an expert at that.