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For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

Now, that push has been codified into a sweeping new law that reaches into classrooms, neighborhoods and homes – and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.

The statute, officially known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, came into effect on July 1. It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division” among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90% of the country’s 1.4 billion people.

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 119 points 1 month ago

This is continuing an act of genocide against the Uyghurs.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 66 points 1 month ago

and other minorities

[-] PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Source: CNN, aka, Fox News II but a bit more serious. They are the same sources that denied the genocide in Gaza for so long, and are still trying to gaslight us about it. Both trying to win Trump's and half of America's approval, people who hate China unconditionally, not just the government, but the people too, unfairly, after being conditioned by movies, shows and videogames like Fallout that paint China as "always malicious, plotting something against us in secret..."

After America proved to have a critical amount of influence over Taiwan, I don't blame China for wanting to integrate most ethnic groups into one, so they don't get influenced or taken over by foreign actors ran by Jeffrey Epstein Class members like the USA or Europe. It's the same thing I feel about my country Mexico; there are so many MAGAs here thanks to republican messages bleeding in indiscriminately. I don't want "republican culture" nonsense touching my country. It sucks. I can't imagine the hatred a lot of Chinese felt when USA tried to tell them what is best for Taiwan. If USA tried to do the same with say, Yucatán or Cancún, I'd vote for more desperate measures like forcing them both to integrate into Mexican culture ASAP, before they get rotten by "American culture" which is racist as hell. I think we should be doing something like that already: get rid of absolutely all American Republicans here before they spread their bigotry. Shit is contagious.

China is at least doing it with diplomacy, unlike America, Europe or Spain, which pretty much eradicated most of the indigenous cultures here in the entire continent of America. Currently killing LGBTQ culture too, still bullying transexuals to death, or taking certain rights away from them, like taking away their specialized support in the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline so they die more easily or disassociate overtime (I'm glad it's failing, though).

You made me go and read the content of the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, and there's nothing in it that promoted genocide or killing. It contains clauses like:

"It obligates the government to support 'inter-embedded community environments' so that ethnic groups can 'live, study, build, share, work, and enjoy together'." "It mandates internet service providers to promptly stop the transmission of 'information containing ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination, or other content that undermines ethnic unity and progress.'" (better than doing it on behalf of only Elon Musk and Epstein like Reddit did) "It vows to support the standardization, digitization, and preservation of minority texts." ...

I don't trust any government, I'm sure there are flaws and people in power who will not respect it like most boomers in power today are not allowing Marijuana in Mexico to be sold at all even after being legalized 2 years ago. Cops with rancor who won't leave you alone if you decide to plant Marijuana at your home, even if legal. So many people here avoid paying the minimum wage properly or in time, and get away with it too. There's also the Narco thriving and all that, because the law is weak and America keeps giving them guns to kill us with, which is also killing our culture slowly but effectively; it is stagnating it with stress, pain and hopelessness. 30,000+ Mexicans die every year just to fulfill USA's whims. We don't have that many companies dedicated to making videogames, or are as proficient in technology because people die young here, it is very difficult to focus on difficult disciplines like physics, math, chemistry, etc when the entire country is constantly on fire, you have no liberty to go outside in peace, are in constant fear... Bad economy, bad nutrition, bad experiences trying to learn, so much mental fog, so much fatigue, so much pain, this is what the USA brings forth. And they're now filling our country with immigrants, "ex-pats" that provoke a raise in prices around them, which slowly and silently displaces the poorest groups here; people who die to poverty and you never hear about them or what they had to said because they never received the chance to read more or learn more. They become another number and that's it. You just saw that "30,000 lives lost every year" and it doesn't really impact you as it should. It's a lot of wasted potential, lost to homicides caused by some capitalistic greedy pigs. I don't hear about shit like this happening in most other countries, it's mostly USA and Mexico, losing 20,000+ and 30,000+ people everyday to senseless violence that shouldn't be there in the first place.

China has its issues too, they are 4x times the size of USA after all. Organizing such a massive country is difficult, but you should learn from them. USA only has 335 million people and it's already on the risk of extinction just 250 years later after being born. China is what? 5,000 years and still going strong? That's embarrassing. The so-called "#1 country in the world" is losing against countries they deemed inferior for so long like China or India. What was the point of the war on Iran, if like other 7 countries have multiple nukes, like India, Pakistan, China, North Korea and France, countries that are increasingly disgusted by the USA every day. The big blonde bully USA only has tiny angry Israel to back it up in the playfield, lol.

This whole "China is super evil" trend feels so forced, so fake, so exaggerated, I can't trust any Western media anymore. They are the same sources that denied the genocide in Gaza for so long, and are still trying to gaslight us about it. CNN and Fox News. All of a sudden, you trust them blindly with this? You sound like Trump whenever you talk about China. It's almost as if they're doing this to give Americans something to cope with. So Americans don't feel too lonely when they are called terrorists or genocide monsters online for what they are doing in the Middle East with their taxes. They can go and rely on whataboutism and bring up China to try and make it seem like there are "worse monsters out there," but nah, nothing will beat America in evildoing anymore, that should just be left very clear already. American Exceptionalism needs to go.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 53 points 1 month ago

It’s pathetic the mental gymnastics people will perform to justify a genocidal state’s actions just because they like the flavor of their authoritarianism.

[-] PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Says you, doing it for Israel and the Jeffrey Epstein Class instead, by promoting CNN which is known for serving those two with a fat smile on their face. I prefer China over your pedophile oligarchs. That's just the final fact the entire world wants you to understand.

It is also not genocide, you don't have real evidence of it being so. Your sources are CNN and Fox News. Get out of here. The UN hasn't called it one the same way it has with Israel. These numbers, these stories you will bring up, how do I know they are even real or not just another "BLACK PEOPLE IN OHIO ARE EATING DOGS AND CATS" type of nonsense being forced upon our throats by the same sources that denied Israel's genocide?

How do we know this is not just the average Western propaganda of dehumanizing an entire subset of people just the same way you did and keep doing with Muslims and Arabs? You successfully convinced a big portion of the world that they are all "terrorists," "inherently evil," and so on. You taught a lot of people to automatically hate brown people. All to commit genocide in the open for decades. How do we know this isn't the same thing, but aimed toward China and the Chinese? They are your biggest threat right now. Economically and technologically.

[-] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What the fuck are you on about??? Where did they defend billionaires?

[-] PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

By promoting CNN, he's promoting a source that is known for serving the Jeffrey Epstein Class. He's normalizing it, giving it reputation. Thanks to him, people will believe CNN more often, be more vulnerable to the propaganda they subtly spread, like their anti-socialist comments about people like Zohran or recent socialist winners like Kiroz, Valdez, etc.

It's almost like they are trying to win your blind approval with headlines that make you feel good, like hating China, just so you believe them more often when it comes to dismantling socialism. I refuse to accept that. I am still open to being proven wrong about China, but not with these. You come across as incredibly untrustworthy. If anything, you're only going to strengthen positive public opinions about China if you keep relying on CNN or Fox News for these narratives.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 25 points 1 month ago

Wow that’s the laziest argument I’ve ever seen.

[-] PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All your replies are MAGA-coded: Simplistic, short, an attack to the messenger, not the message. "Wow, that's the laziest argument I've ever seen" without explaining why or answering anything. That's literally how Republicans reply online all the time.

You are likely a Jeffrey Epstein Class supporter, trying to stop people in Lemmy from using critical thinking.

Otherwise, go on and prove to us that it is really a genocide, and not just more Western propaganda to dehumanize China the same way you dehumanized Muslims so you could genocide them, you disgusting monster. It's literally your talent to justify genocides with shit that makes you sound morally superior. You are committing second-hand genocide on Mexico and the Middle East while saying you're not, so, how can we trust you with this one? How can we trust anything you say about China is even real or not, if you have gone as far as lying about your own people "eating cats and dogs" or committing crimes at rates they are really not...

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 18 points 1 month ago

I’m against all genocides.

What Israel is doing to Palestine is as horrible and as disgusting as what China is doing to the Uyghurs or what Russia is doing to the Ukrainians.

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[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Do you think China is somehow outside the networks confirmed by the Epstein files? It's a global pyramid

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[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago

No, requiring Mandarin classes in schools so they have some economic opportunities in life is not an act of genocide kiddo.

[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 49 points 1 month ago

Same logic as residential schools in Canada to give native Americans an opportunity by teaching them English...

[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 17 points 1 month ago

Except Canada didn't, at the time, forcibly teach the local Tribe's culture as a mandatory part of the curriculum. This law requires it (as does the specific regional laws before it in starting in 2018). The only thing this law does is take the pilot program from Xinjiang and make it nation-wide, allowing all of the poorer rural regions to be taught Mandarin and basic Chinese history alongside their local cultural studies and local language, both of which have been required longer than you've hated China for allegedly doing the opposite.

[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes I know I've read your other comments. It's the same logic though which is undeniable... The Canadians used exactly the same justifications for setting up the residential schools in the first place to "solve the aboriginal problem" as they saw it. An eerie parallel to China's domestic "every other culture except Han problem" that they're solving with this.

This method is tried and true across the world and its exactly how you stamp out other languages and dilute or destroy culture whether that's the goal or not, just as a consequence of teaching the lingua franca.

The French academy is a good example. Thousands of dialects disappeared because of being required to learn "proper French" as the academy saw it. It worked, which is why there's far less variation in accents and spelling across France than the UK which took a more organic approach, inadvertently preserving some of the local accents even if the English accidentally wiped out existing dialects due to incentives surrounding employment, along with rail, telegraphy, schooling, and urbanization.

Wiping out competing dialects and cultures is a consequence of industrialization and consolidating the land you have.

Edit: more context and parallels between the residential schools and China's policy.

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[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 month ago

Trying to eradicate a people's culture is absolutely a form of genocide kiddo.

[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

Requiring that people's culture be taught in schools is erasing it?

Maybe my English has degraded but that sounds like the exact opposite kiddo.

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 28 points 1 month ago

True but when you add in the sexual violence, the forced sterilization, the sexual violence and the mass murder it starts to look pretty damning.

Notice how I didn’t have to call you kiddo because my argument stand up for itself?

[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

True but when you add in the sexual violence,

Fun fact, this happens at all prisons all over the world, and the perpetrators are arrested, charged, and imprisoned for it when it does happen.

the forced sterilization,

Fun fact, while this was claimed by individuals that once alleged they had family members this happened to in Xinjiang, there was never any evidence of this provided during the UN probe, and the UN probe failed to find any victims of this. Just 'Families' of 'victims' that could not locate said victims despite allegedly being in contact with them.

the mass murder it starts to look pretty damning.

This didn't happen, unless you're talking about the US-lead terror attacks across Xinjiang which lead to the security increase and economic investment in the region. Kiddo.

I will stop calling you kiddo when you decide that, unlike a child, you will actually look up evidence yourself instead of thinking "RadioFreeAsia" and other NED sponsored outlets.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 28 points 1 month ago

Think for yourself says the genocide denier.

[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

My guy no international observer has ever found evidence of a genocide. Not a single one. There have been no less than twenty international and UN investigations into this because of US propaganda. China is one of the most investigated countries in the history of the UN and Interpol.

What was it you libs kept saying about Hillary Clinton? If she was hiding something surely it would've been found in the hours and weeks of interrogation she went through or the massive investigations?

Apply that same logic to a country that has fully complied with all international requests and investigations.

[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

No international observer found evidence of the German Holocaust either until after the war. Just saying...

[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

Except in that case international observers were not allowed free roam of Germany including the prisons that supposedly in the case of China are these industrial extermination camps 10-20x as large as Germany's.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 points 1 month ago

Your whataboutisms don’t cover the sounds of genocide denialism.

[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago
[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 8 points 1 month ago

You exhibited both whataboutism and genocide denialism in your last comment so what exactly are you taking offense to?

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[-] MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

Okay, just look into what the US and Canada did with their "cultural education" program for indiginous peoples and tell me this doesn't smell the same.

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[-] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is no evidence of genocide of the Uyghurs. Here is an article detailing and debunking the false allegations. https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang?rq=Xinjiang

Unfortunately, you have been fed anti-communist propaganda.

Instead of just reactively downvoting me, actually read the article. It's exceptionally well sourced, and fits all the necessary criteria for good journalism.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 45 points 1 month ago

Thinking that the CCP is anything but capitalist and imperialist is propaganda.

That article is a joke.

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[-] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lmao did you check the sources linked in that article?

➤ 2019 June 18 – BBC’s visit to a vocational center.

https://youtu.be/WmId2ZP3h0c

Uyghurs are being held captive where they are forced to change, adapt and love the CCP if they are to ever leave.

Genocide is the partial or total destruction of a human group, committed intentionally. The popular view conceives of genocide as the large-scale killing of individuals, but in scholarly and legal fields, genocide occurs when the group itself is targeted. Acts of genocide include killing as well as non-lethal acts such as preventing reproduction among the group, the forcible transfer of children to another group, and cultural genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

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