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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com -4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

https://www.globalr2p.org/countries/china/

While the OHCHR assessment (Aug 31, 2022) does not indicate genocide, its authors are being pedantic. The findings you cited indicate crimes against humanity including reproductive-rights abuses. (click "UN report and China's response to it" then scroll to the bottom to download the PDF) They might not be lining them up in the streets and shooting them, but they ARE trying to exterminate them, and treat them as less than human in the process. Whether the report authors use the word "genocide" is immaterial.

Read the report yourself, you'll see that what's happening is unchecked criminal, inhumane activity directed at the Uyghur population and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minority communities in Xinjiang.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

the OHCHR assessment (Aug 31, 2022) does not indicate genocide

Great, done, stop typing. Everything else is just blatant Motte and Baillie

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com -4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is incorrect I'm afraid. The OHCHR assessment should have indicated genocide. I suspect that admitting you're wrong is difficult for you, but in this case it's patently clear for the reasons I stated above. This difference in terminology is pedantic; what's important is the suffering and persecution that's going on in China, and you've failed to address any of it. I wish you the best of luck in your journey, but I have no more time to donate to you. Have a day.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago

The OHCHR assessment should have indicated genocide.

Uhuh, so It's not incorrect, you just disagree

I suspect that admitting you’re wrong is difficult for you

Go back to reddit you fucking loser.

This difference in terminology is pedantic

Are, you're into the "Words don't mean things!" phase of argument.

This difference in terminology is pedantic; what’s important is the suffering and persecution that’s going on in China, and you’ve failed to address any of it.

Uhuh, so like I said, just blatant Motte and Baillie

I wish you the best of luck in your journey, but I have no more time to donate to you. Have a day.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

So your argument is "they are just dehumanizing and trying to exterminate a group of people, and I'm chill with that"? A bold position.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No, that's very obviously not "my argument", but I wouldn't expect you to be above lying and putting words in my mouth.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Well then why did you say the rest of the post of the person you're responding to doesn't matter? You did say that, didn't you? You told them to stop and that their argument is faulty, but didn't deny the actual claims. That implies to me you don't care. If you do care, you did an extremely poor job of showing it by telling them to stop talking.

So if the above is so completely off base, why don't you continue your argument with the poster above?

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That is not something anyone here has said, dumbass

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Seems that way. Person 2 above said "it's not x but it is y", person above said "you can stop at it's not x" implying to me they are fine with "but it is y". What's wrong with that inference?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Valuable addition. I ask "why is that inference wrong" and you say "no".

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What's wrong with it is it's factually inaccurate, fucking duh. You can stop at "it's not genocide" because that by itself is an entirely accurate statement, everything you said after that is bullshit, and the comment you're referring to was not ambiguous about that at all so you have absolutely no excuse for pretending otherwise.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

No, he said everything else is some type of castle. I looked this castle up and it aligns well with the idea that he's trying to shut down the other claims without considering them.

From the wiki:

where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities: one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey")

So he's technically saying that the rest of the post is modest claims which are easy to defend, ie he agrees with Y. (I'm assuming the bailey is genocide and the motte is the claims of ethnic cleansing w/out genocide)

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Another solid argument that gets right to the real point of all this.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Arguments are for disagreements in good faith with people who are honest, you're a lying sack of shit so you do not warrant an argument, cry about it

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

No, this is wrong, the PRC is not exterminating Uyghurs. Uyghurs were, as ethnic minorities, exempted from the one child policy, and now have better access to things like IUDs for proper family planning. The PRC is not trying to exterminate Uyghurs, your claims are fantastical.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's in the article you cited my dude

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I cited it as a beginning of understanding the allegations, which you yourself go above and beyond into fantasy by claiming China is "trying to exterminate the Uyghurs." Did you read China's response, or the Qiao Collective's resource compilation?

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

["While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide.”

The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang."]( https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+Chinese+government+is+taking%2Cmajority+to+have+more+children)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The hundreds of millions of dollars the government pours into birth control has transformed Xinjiang from one of China’s fastest-growing regions to among its slowest in just a few years, according to new research obtained by The Associated Press in advance of publication by China scholar Adrian Zenz.

“This kind of drop is unprecedented....there’s a ruthlessness to it,” said Zenz, a leading expert in the policing of China’s minority regions. “This is part of a wider control campaign to subjugate the Uighurs.”

You're citing the very same professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation I spoke of earlier. This is not a real source, it's fiction. Here's a decent source going over Zenz and his background as a propagandist.

IUD usage is increasing as Xinjiang develops economically and family planning becomes more important. The Uyghur people were exempt from the One Child Policy, and as a consequence the increase in IUD usage seems more drastic than it actually is, plus Zenz was caught literally making up numbers.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

100%^[It is known] of new^[It is known] IUDs^[It is known] in China^[It is known] are being forced^[It is known] on Uyghurs^[Source: Zenz]

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yep, any time I see the word "IUD" on anything related to Xinjiang I ctrl+f "Zenz" and 99/100 times it pops up. The last 1/100 is just a link to Zenz indirectly.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

The state department thanks you for your service patriot