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TaylorAlexander 8y ago
Thank you for making this reply. I knew the comment was in poor taste but you really captured why nicely.
yorwba 8y ago
It's interesting that "genocide" is the term you chose, when the mass killings haven't started yet. Maybe it's because that feels like the inevitable outcome of the current situation, just as the internment camps were the inevitable outcome of the apartheid-like segregated society described in the article?
- dx87 8y ago
  Genocide is any attempt to destroy a group of people or their culture. Killing is one method of commiting genocide, but imprisoning members of a culture in an attempt to destroy that culture is also considered genocide.
  - yourbandsucks 8y ago
    No, genocide has a pretty precise definition, actually. I'm sure I'll get downmodded to hell for pointing this out, but what's happening in xinjiang right now is a mass internment, with terrorism as the casus belli. It might turn into ethnic cleansing in the near future. It's unlikely to turn into genocide, and it's definitely not right now.
  - chr1 8y ago
    Where did you find a definition about the culture? Searching genocide on google brings up only definitions including killing, and the word itself means killing people not culture.
- thaumasiotes 8y ago
  > the mass killings haven't started yet That all depends on your perspective. Xinjiang used to be where the Dzunghar Mongols lived. The Uyghurs are just the people who filled the vacuum.
arduanika 8y ago
It's practically the Always Sunny pilot, where Charlie is reeling from a cancer diagnosis yet all Dennis can think of is mooching some sugar from him for his coffee.

TaylorAlexander 8y ago

Thank you for making this reply. I knew the comment was in poor taste but you really captured why nicely.

yorwba 8y ago

It's interesting that "genocide" is the term you chose, when the mass killings haven't started yet. Maybe it's because that feels like the inevitable outcome of the current situation, just as the internment camps were the inevitable outcome of the apartheid-like segregated society described in the article?

dx87 8y ago
Genocide is any attempt to destroy a group of people or their culture. Killing is one method of commiting genocide, but imprisoning members of a culture in an attempt to destroy that culture is also considered genocide.
- yourbandsucks 8y ago
  No, genocide has a pretty precise definition, actually. I'm sure I'll get downmodded to hell for pointing this out, but what's happening in xinjiang right now is a mass internment, with terrorism as the casus belli. It might turn into ethnic cleansing in the near future. It's unlikely to turn into genocide, and it's definitely not right now.
- chr1 8y ago
  Where did you find a definition about the culture? Searching genocide on google brings up only definitions including killing, and the word itself means killing people not culture.
thaumasiotes 8y ago
> the mass killings haven't started yet That all depends on your perspective. Xinjiang used to be where the Dzunghar Mongols lived. The Uyghurs are just the people who filled the vacuum.

arduanika 8y ago

It's practically the Always Sunny pilot, where Charlie is reeling from a cancer diagnosis yet all Dennis can think of is mooching some sugar from him for his coffee.