https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/TheDeprogram/comments/11s7x4u/badempanada_uyhgers_video/

Found in the Deprogram subā€™s discussion ofnit which is quite good. Radio War Nerd also does this beating around the bush with Zenzā€™s beliefs. To say nothing of Deprogram & RWN Russia takes,

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Itā€™s a program that impacts millions of people, there is going to be variance no matter what, and there would be ā€œvery concernedā€ people who just want ā€œnuanceā€ no matter what, because that variance that exists in reality will always produce at least some poor outcomes to handwring about and say you ā€œprefer it were differentā€, since nothing goes wrong in the ideal version they imagine in their head.

The bottom line is that Chinaā€™s program is worth supporting both for the people of Xinjiang who were being terrorized and for the stability of China as a whole, and the handwringing is functionally only thinly distinguished from concern trolling when one merely speaks in vagueries about ā€œmorally objectionable things happeningā€.

If you have specific objections, name them. Otherwise, just move on instead of engaging in that absurd song and dance against imaginary dogmatists.

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If you have specific objections, name them

I would say the ā€œpossibleā€ (Iā€™m honestly not quite sure how widespread it is) sterilization that mightā€™ve produced a massive drop in birth rate is one of them

And the other is the too broad institutionalization of people based on their activities, I know theyā€™re not just putting people in these institutions against their will because they are muslim, there has to be other criteria, but I find it hard to believe that everyone (or maybe even most) who passes through them actually was, or had a probability of becoming, a terrorist.

And generally Iā€™m taking a ā€œwait and seeā€ approach, because intuitively I would say that this program wonā€™t actually end separatist terrorism (as US wars didnā€™t end terrorism and increased it) because of the resentment it can provoke in people in Xinjiang whoā€™ll end up being radicalized, but there hasnā€™t been an attack in a while soā€¦

Itā€™s literally the ā€œpeopleā€™s war on terrorā€ and Iā€™m not saying that as a criticism (even in a completely ideal socialist society there may be terrorism) but I do think some things can be done in the name of it that will go too far.

Regardless Iā€™m only willing to discuss this in places like these, otherwise Iā€™m careful not to play into anti-china propaganda

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I would say the ā€œpossibleā€ (Iā€™m honestly not quite sure how widespread it is) sterilization that mightā€™ve produced a massive drop in birth rate is one of them

I totally put off responding to this but remembered it and wanted to mention to you that IUDs would be an incredibly stupid way to conduct a ā€œsterilizationā€ campaign, since itā€™s meant to be a very temporary procedure and is thereby totally reversible. Historically we have seen what actual sterilization campaigns tend to look like (chemical castration of Ethiopians in Israel, hysterectomies on migrants in the US) and they are not the sort of thing where the victim could hypothetically go to anyone with training as a gynocologist and have it safely reversed in literally a few minutes.

It seems much more likely when one sees a large uptick in IUD insertions in a historically impoverished area where women have comparatively less autonomy to be things other than homemakers that perhaps this is something women are doing voluntarily as a product of recent development rather than due to compulsion.

And the other is the too broad institutionalization of people based on their activities, I know theyā€™re not just putting people in these institutions against their will because they are muslim, there has to be other criteria, but I find it hard to believe that everyone (or maybe even most) who passes through them actually was, or had a probability of becoming, a terrorist.

I think you know that this is a really nebulous claim, but itā€™s worth noting that these people werenā€™t taken to Guantanamo Bay or even to a ā€œprisonā€ in a recognizable sense of the word. A segment of them were imprisoned in the literal sense of the word (though with freedom to return on weekends and keep contact with the outside world), but what they were doing wasnā€™t breaking rocks in a quarry, it was receiving education and vocational training. For someone who was at-risk in part due to poverty or social insularity, these are not terrible things to spend a year on. Granted, that doesnā€™t justify just rounding up people willy-nilly, but it makes ā€œconcernsā€ about not-at-risk people likewise require a little more substantiation.

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Hey thanks for getting back to me anyway I appreciate it, your replies to me are in my inbox for easy access for when I have to provide counter-arguments to the genocide narrative.

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Wait you believe the great replacement Uyghur sterilization theory

Lmfao this us exactly what I expect from everyone doing ā€œnuanceā€ - you assume thereā€™s something to the accusations of anticommunists who were paid to LIE

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Wait you believe the great replacement Uyghur sterilization theory

I donā€™t believe thatā€™s the intention in any way nor that sterilization is that prevalent.

But I thought both the declining birth rate and the presence of sterilization were both acknowledged by the government at some point no? Back in 2019 before everybody started screaming genocide the government was a lot more open about this program. Goes to show how damaging the genocide narrative is.

I would honestly appreciate an answer and I donā€™t mind if you just say youā€™re not sure, thatā€™s at least more honest in my case

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