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If he has six criticisms, he picked a terrible one to lead with. People will assume that's his strongest argument and it's a weak one. The much stronger argumen
by _pwux 6y ago
If he has six criticisms, he picked a terrible one to lead with. People will assume that's his strongest argument and it's a weak one. The much stronger argument is that Zenz is a crazed religious propagandist.
- BelenusMordred 6y agoI try hard to avoid this topic on HN but the 1st argument is: > 1. The logic problem: no genocide in history has ever occurred amidst rising population, life expectancy, and income of those supposedly victimized > the average annual population growth (of Uyghurs) is 1.94%, which is considered extremely rapid, and is close to the peak numbers for population growth globally, seen in the late 1960s Interested why you see this as a bad leading argument against using the phrase "genocide"? Also you say: > The much stronger argument is that Zenz is a crazed religious propagandist. Zenz's motivations or religious leaning is irrelevant, if you cant argue with the research papers he puts out then it only makes one side look bad here. Most of his work is pure OSINT stuff from Chinese local government websites.