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"China is being shitty and authoritarian towards the Uyghurs, but it's nothing like the genocide Israel is waging", saying that Chinese influence in Myanmar is a more serious violation by the PRC than the Uyghur genocide is, and leveling a judgement of "PTB" - "Power Tripping Bastard" - towards the moderator of this comm for banning someone who was literally denying the Uyghur genocide.
Combined, that's pretty distinctly defending Uyghur genocide denial, and I would say right up on the border of denying Uyghur genocide themselves.
If I said, "Israel is being shitty and authoritarian towards the Palestinians, but it's nothing like the genocide the Nazis waged", would you regard that as:
A. Borderline genocide denial of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by reducing the ongoing genocide to something that is simply 'shitty and authoritarian' while noting that 'real' genocide is more than that
OR
B. Just making casual comparisons
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I think it's C: a bad faith comparison.
Whether something is genocide should be based on its own merits (are people being killed en masse because of their religion/race/etc?), not how much it resembles another genocide.
Here's a good definition:
If that describes what's happening, then it's a genocide. If it's really close, it's probably genocide. What's going on with the Uyghurs is pretty close, and given we don't have transparency, we must assume it's a genocide. Likewise with Palestinians.
It's not complicated, just look at the definition and see how much lines up.
That is literally defending one genocide.
As a note: I've been vocal about not supporting any sorts of violence