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Xinjiang is under surveillance for a reason. They have blown up buses and killed thousands. Crime rate among Uyghurs community is also much higher.
by zachguo 9y ago
Xinjiang is under surveillance for a reason. They have blown up buses and killed thousands. Crime rate among Uyghurs community is also much higher.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI presume you have reliable sources for those claims?
- zachguo 9y agoI grew up in China. When I was little, there was a time that if a Uyghurs person get on the bus, everybody else on the bus would get off. Even nowadays people tend to get nervous when they see Uyghurs wandering on street.
- eivarv 9y agoThat doesn't necessarily mean it's reasonable to be suspicious towards an entire ethnic group. Not many Uyghurs support violence, and not all Uyghurs are separatists.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoReplace "when I was little" with "1930s Germany" and "Uyghurs" with "Jews". A seed of distrust and paranoia was sown and was allowed to grow. That does not mean it has any basis in fact. You should also look at how the Chinese government has oppressed the Uyghurs (and Tibetans and Taiwanese, to name a few).
- zachguo 9y agoI know biased stereotype is bad, and I totally agree not all Uyghurs are bad. I went to Uyghurs restaurant regularly and had Uyghurs classmates in college too.
- pertymcpert 9y agoYep, me too. How could I be racist, one of my best friends is black? I just mean the other kinds.
- wyuenho 9y agoThat's called a rebellion, and it's rebellion for a very simple reason - cultural genocide by the CCP.
- zachguo 9y agoso I guess you are happy about terrorists killing your families for a 'holy sacrifice'?
- wyuenho 9y agoI don't know how you can jump from stating an observation to conclude how I feel about it. I'm merely stating a natural course of human affairs. To answer your question, I'm not happy to see any violence, but as someone who has some humility, and pragmatism, I don't see how more oppression can solve the problem of violence. For the Uyghurs, they view what they do as self defense, just like the Chinese, is self defense wrong? Some would argue only if the force used is not proportional to the offense sustained. For over a century, Chinese of various factions have invaded and massacred tens of thousands of Uyghurs in the region under different pretexts, what exactly can you expect from an ethnic group fighting for their very own survival?