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China makes contentious comparison between Gaza and Xinjiang
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According to Lemmy's developers, there is no genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and you'll be banned from lemmy.ml if you mention it
It's politically inconvenient.
To be fair, they're hardly alone in that. The Muslim world is also happy to look the other way, because China is seen as a potential ally, as mentioned in this article.
But to paraphrase Norm McDonald, I don't think the worst part is the hypocrisy. I think it's the genocide.
Ouch, everyone immediately outside of East Asia is going to get a rough history lesson about Han Chauvinism. People in the west have a radically different view about race than the rest of the world. One that's mainly built upon the social construct of racial hierarchy, a concept that didn't really exist in the east.
Eastern "racism" has more to do with historical ethnic conflict that stretches back thousands of years. The Chinese government has been attempting to implement han chauvinism under the guise of western nationalism. Creating the class of zhonghua minzu or non Han Chinese, enabling them to assimilate and depopulate ethnic minorities in a way that is palatable to the west.
Even if there was no evidence of reeducation camps or destruction of cultural land marks, just the evidence the CCP has published allows us to see behind the veil of Han Chauvinism.
Based on their own census data we can see that ethnic minorities are being driven from their historic capitals to the rural areas surrounding them. That their birth rates have fallen by a third, despite the massive amounts of resources being directed to the area. That ethnic han migration is being subsidized, pushing minorities out of their homes and into the rural countryside.
Most damning of all, even though the Han claim that "autonomous" regions are governed by ethnic minorities of the region, they have to report to a Han secretary. The Han will placate the global stage with these claims of autonomy, but if you look at the politburo where the real power of the government rests. We can see that no ethnic minority has ever been allowed into an actual seat of power within the Chinese government.
I feel like a lot of my western leftist counterparts are so used to fighting the western ideology of racial supremacy, that they forget that it's a relatively modern concept. They don't see that just because ethnic conflict is happening within the same "race", doesn't mean it isn't driven by the same imperialism as western race relations.
Wayyyyy too many people are obsessed with uncovering hypocrisy, as if the world doesn't run on hypocrisy like America runs on Dunkin.