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Cotton serves as a pretty potent metaphor for the American audience. I wonder what the perception of Xinjiang is like for Han Chinese. Do they see the people of

Cotton serves as a pretty potent metaphor for the American audience. I wonder what the perception of Xinjiang is like for Han Chinese. Do they see the people of Xinjiang as being Chinese? Do Chinese understand euphemisms like "reeducation" for what they really are? Is there Stockholm syndrome causing the Han to be protective of their shared oppressors?

president 4y ago
Have spoken to some Chinese engineers in the Bay Area and most see Uyghurs as terrorists (they will point to terrorist attacks) and do not know about (do not believe) the camps or oppression.
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
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  - birdyrooster 4y ago
    Collective punishment is fascism and considering CPP indoctrination, I can see how the Chinese might see it as a legitimate form of social recourse. Thanks for the insight! I guess it was the Stockholm Syndrome answer all along.
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    - daniel-cussen 4y ago
      What's the CPP? You mean CCP, Chinese Communist Party? And it's fascism at the same time? Like if I capture Osama bin Laden alive and take him to a camp in eg Morocco to make him pay for his sins, I can't ask him to do ten push-ups? Like he designs the murder of 2,988 people and I can't squeeze 10 push-ups out of him? Him in particular. The specific unique Wahhabi who committed the terrorism, like he matches the videos he released claiming responsibility, him. Ten pushups? There has to be integrity.
walrus01 4y ago
Chinese government state media has vastly hyped up the "terrorist" thread from islamically radicalized Uyghurs. They've been doing it for years.
TaXaZ 4y ago
Many justify a long-term, sometimes subtle (even vague) concept that has been codified through years of education, culture, propaganda, and tangible massive on-the-ground benefits. That concept and the reason people on the east coast (Hans) support exploiting, manipulating, and projecting power on the west (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, etc.) is determined by geopolitics. In one case, China's water resources and long-term economic stability depend on controlling the highlands in the west. The rest is just fabricated reasoning sugarcoating their strategy to cover this strategic vulnerability. A typical Han Chinese with roots in the developed east might not think in these terms transparently. Still, it has years of education and the harsh reality of its region to transform this into an assortment of (un)justified reasoning. They need it to control and secure their stability. This has also been the case in many other regions, for example, the Middle East, where such harsh geopolitical realities have been codified in different nationalistic and sectarian fractions.

president 4y ago

Have spoken to some Chinese engineers in the Bay Area and most see Uyghurs as terrorists (they will point to terrorist attacks) and do not know about (do not believe) the camps or oppression.

daniel-cussen 4y ago
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- birdyrooster 4y ago
  Collective punishment is fascism and considering CPP indoctrination, I can see how the Chinese might see it as a legitimate form of social recourse. Thanks for the insight! I guess it was the Stockholm Syndrome answer all along.
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  - daniel-cussen 4y ago
    What's the CPP? You mean CCP, Chinese Communist Party? And it's fascism at the same time? Like if I capture Osama bin Laden alive and take him to a camp in eg Morocco to make him pay for his sins, I can't ask him to do ten push-ups? Like he designs the murder of 2,988 people and I can't squeeze 10 push-ups out of him? Him in particular. The specific unique Wahhabi who committed the terrorism, like he matches the videos he released claiming responsibility, him. Ten pushups? There has to be integrity.

walrus01 4y ago

Chinese government state media has vastly hyped up the "terrorist" thread from islamically radicalized Uyghurs. They've been doing it for years.

TaXaZ 4y ago

Many justify a long-term, sometimes subtle (even vague) concept that has been codified through years of education, culture, propaganda, and tangible massive on-the-ground benefits. That concept and the reason people on the east coast (Hans) support exploiting, manipulating, and projecting power on the west (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, etc.) is determined by geopolitics. In one case, China's water resources and long-term economic stability depend on controlling the highlands in the west. The rest is just fabricated reasoning sugarcoating their strategy to cover this strategic vulnerability. A typical Han Chinese with roots in the developed east might not think in these terms transparently. Still, it has years of education and the harsh reality of its region to transform this into an assortment of (un)justified reasoning. They need it to control and secure their stability. This has also been the case in many other regions, for example, the Middle East, where such harsh geopolitical realities have been codified in different nationalistic and sectarian fractions.