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>The reality isn't the point, the point is to angry at China. Only because the mass media have used anti-China sentiments to generate clicks and fear and polit

>The reality isn't the point, the point is to angry at China. Only because the mass media have used anti-China sentiments to generate clicks and fear and politicians have fed on that to acquire votes. The fact that we can't have a honest, fact based discussion about China, even on HN, is sad. Let's just be angry at China because "China" is literally what you're suggesting.

yorwba 3y ago
Is your username a reference to the claim that there were no mass arrests in Xinjiang, people were simply sent to school to learn useful job skills?
- senttoschool 3y ago
  Let's not ignore the fact that Muslim Uyghur were/are causing terrorist acts on innocent people. This never gets brought up for some reason. China has to deal with domestic Islamic extremists. It deals with it by mass re-education camps. This idea isn't unpopular in the West and if Western governments could muster up the will power, they'd do it too. At least it's far better than going to war, like what the US has mostly done against Islamic extremists. The west labels these camps as genocide to paint it as "China bad". Nothing is ever black and white. PS. Don't use personal attacks. You don't know me. I don't know you.
  - yorwba 3y ago
    I wasn't trying to attack you, I was merely curious whether you specifically picked the username to clearly signal your stance or whether it was a coincidence.
  - tamimio 3y ago
    >fact that Muslim Uyghur were/are causing terrorist acts on innocent people. Bring the facts, don’t claim something is a fact without backing that up. Also, according to leaked documents, the whole community, incl kids women and innocents, were subject to these actions, assuming there were some “terrorist acts” -still need your citation, preferably not from CCP backed media-, you go only after who committed these acts, legally persecuted through a fair court, but documents showed otherwise [1] and you can read summary of these here [2], according to these leaks, you are religious extremist if you are “Telling others not to swear”, “Not allowing officials to sleep in your bed, eat your food and live in your house”, “Not letting officials scan your irises” ,”Wailing, publicly grieving or otherwise acting sad when your parents die” and worse of all “Being related to anyone who has done any of the above”, that among other atrocities were committed like rape or harvesting the organs (see articles in my previous reply). When the government say “extremists” you need to look carefully what were these actions, grieving on family definitely isn’t one, but those are all usually the stages of genocides [3] and it seems it’s already on the 10th stage. These all go under the assumption there were no false flags [4] to start with, a way to justify the genocides later. Bringing other countries atrocities as an excuse is even worse, and I don’t think I need to explain why. [1] https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/the-leaked-documents/ https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/the-leaked-documents/ [2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-25/china-cables-beijings-xinjiang-secrets-revealed/11719016 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-25/china-cables-beijings... [3] http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/ http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/ [4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
    - yorwba 3y ago
      The most high-profile terrorist attack was probably the one on Tiananmen Square in 2013, for which the Turkistan Islamic Party claimed responsibility: https://www.smh.com.au/world/turkestan-islamic-party-islamist-group-warns-of-more-attacks-such-as-tiananmen-20131125-2y632.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/turkestan-islamic-party-islamis...
      - tamimio 3y ago
        Sounds extremely like a false flag like I said, an exaggerated car crash followed by a pre-recorded message, nonetheless if true, whoever did it and pleaded guilty, should be punished, obviously not a genocide for a whole province.
        yorwba 3y ago
        If Abdullah Mansour himself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Mansour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Mansour was actually a plant acting as part of a false flag operation, then who isn't?
    - dirtyid 3y ago
      https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?expanded=no&casualties_type=&casualties_max=&success=yes&country=44&ob=GTDID&od=desc&page=1&count=100#results-table https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?expanded=n... There's about 100 attacks attributed to Uyghur seperatists over the years. This is 101 information. One would need to be mentally challenged to think PRC false flag 100s of terrorists attacks killing 1000s in their own territory over past 20 years as setup for XJ securitization. The reality is XJ is a poor, frontier region with restive minority that got radicalized during era where PRC had poor infra to XJ and couldn't assert control over population. 100 attacks (that western DB can indentify) doesn't happen without support base, either in sympathies/affiliation/funding. So entire region/minority gets the boot, punish those who needs to be punished, reeducate those who needs to be reeducated, even if behaviourly remotely adjacent to seperatism, and a few years later, zero terrorism attacks. False positive excessive? Yes. Even in 2019/20 PRC estimates 5 years of strike hard caught ~13k terrorists in ~1500 organized gangs, ~30k people for ~5000 illegal religious activities. All of which is to say, even if you take CCP official figures, magnitude more people were wrapped up in securitization than the 40k attributed to terrorism problem. But that overbroad dragnet ensures you don't replace 1 terrorist with 2, and targetting 0.1% of the population to prevent future attacks is basically no shit correct political decision for domestic serenity. Which makse the entire genocide narrative even more retarded. PRC could trivially actually genocide, as in destroy, 100% of Ugyhurs in a few weekends with pocket change, but chose laborious/expensive reeducation system and securitization architecture that will need to be put in place for decades precisely because it doesn't want to genocide. If only because it would look bad on Xi's hagiography to reduce 55 minorities to 54. The fact is, if Xi was Obama, he'd be collecting his Nobel Peace prize by now.
ZEITVEKTOR 3y ago
Judging from the current international situation, articles related to China will bring a certain amount of traffic and click-through rates, and most of them are negative, making it difficult to tell the truth from the fake. I am already a little tired of such articles.
- senttoschool 3y ago
  At some point, people in the west must be weary of all the anti-China propaganda right? Or does it just never end? Like, it's so obvious that they must know that they're being fed propaganda?
  - Garvi 3y ago
    Most people by now watched a thousand online lynchings of people who pointed out the propaganda. They're either afraid or they themselves enjoy a good lynching. There is also very little risk of it backfiring as censorship takes care of any successful counter arguments. It's easier to understand through the lens of history, specifically pre-ww2 Germany. The first Germans to turn NAZI were the stereotypical ones : fat, lazy, single, unemployed. Giving these people "ein Feindsbild" and a reason to be proud, without having to move a finger, resonated with these groups. How did they get the rest of the population in line you ask? There's an old German joke from that time: "Four Germans and a nazi walk into a bar. Five nazis are now drinking beer together happily." So to answer your question: No, they're not aware, even though it's this obvious. Reaching these people would mean them having to first admit they were wrong. And that's been pretty much out of style lately.
    - senttoschool 3y ago
      When I first started using HN, I expected posters here to view China through the lens of history and understanding. For example, I expected people here to see through the propaganda that politicians and the mass media spout. I expected people to see issues as grey, and not black and white, good vs evil. I was wrong. The reason why I had originally thought so is because most engineers like history and are reasonably educated.
wddkcs 3y ago
Not at all, Im not advocating for anything. In the same way the GP was as attacked for even asking about the validity of the Uighur genocide claim, you're now misrepresenting my statement. Why? Because the facts aren't the point, division and outrage are the point. You're demonstrating my point, not addressing it.

yorwba 3y ago

Is your username a reference to the claim that there were no mass arrests in Xinjiang, people were simply sent to school to learn useful job skills?

senttoschool 3y ago
Let's not ignore the fact that Muslim Uyghur were/are causing terrorist acts on innocent people. This never gets brought up for some reason. China has to deal with domestic Islamic extremists. It deals with it by mass re-education camps. This idea isn't unpopular in the West and if Western governments could muster up the will power, they'd do it too. At least it's far better than going to war, like what the US has mostly done against Islamic extremists. The west labels these camps as genocide to paint it as "China bad". Nothing is ever black and white. PS. Don't use personal attacks. You don't know me. I don't know you.
- yorwba 3y ago
  I wasn't trying to attack you, I was merely curious whether you specifically picked the username to clearly signal your stance or whether it was a coincidence.
- tamimio 3y ago
  >fact that Muslim Uyghur were/are causing terrorist acts on innocent people. Bring the facts, don’t claim something is a fact without backing that up. Also, according to leaked documents, the whole community, incl kids women and innocents, were subject to these actions, assuming there were some “terrorist acts” -still need your citation, preferably not from CCP backed media-, you go only after who committed these acts, legally persecuted through a fair court, but documents showed otherwise [1] and you can read summary of these here [2], according to these leaks, you are religious extremist if you are “Telling others not to swear”, “Not allowing officials to sleep in your bed, eat your food and live in your house”, “Not letting officials scan your irises” ,”Wailing, publicly grieving or otherwise acting sad when your parents die” and worse of all “Being related to anyone who has done any of the above”, that among other atrocities were committed like rape or harvesting the organs (see articles in my previous reply). When the government say “extremists” you need to look carefully what were these actions, grieving on family definitely isn’t one, but those are all usually the stages of genocides [3] and it seems it’s already on the 10th stage. These all go under the assumption there were no false flags [4] to start with, a way to justify the genocides later. Bringing other countries atrocities as an excuse is even worse, and I don’t think I need to explain why. [1] https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/the-leaked-documents/ https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/the-leaked-documents/ [2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-25/china-cables-beijings-xinjiang-secrets-revealed/11719016 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-25/china-cables-beijings... [3] http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/ http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/ [4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
  - yorwba 3y ago
    The most high-profile terrorist attack was probably the one on Tiananmen Square in 2013, for which the Turkistan Islamic Party claimed responsibility: https://www.smh.com.au/world/turkestan-islamic-party-islamist-group-warns-of-more-attacks-such-as-tiananmen-20131125-2y632.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/turkestan-islamic-party-islamis...
    - tamimio 3y ago
      Sounds extremely like a false flag like I said, an exaggerated car crash followed by a pre-recorded message, nonetheless if true, whoever did it and pleaded guilty, should be punished, obviously not a genocide for a whole province.
      - yorwba 3y ago
        If Abdullah Mansour himself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Mansour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Mansour was actually a plant acting as part of a false flag operation, then who isn't?
  - dirtyid 3y ago
    https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?expanded=no&casualties_type=&casualties_max=&success=yes&country=44&ob=GTDID&od=desc&page=1&count=100#results-table https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?expanded=n... There's about 100 attacks attributed to Uyghur seperatists over the years. This is 101 information. One would need to be mentally challenged to think PRC false flag 100s of terrorists attacks killing 1000s in their own territory over past 20 years as setup for XJ securitization. The reality is XJ is a poor, frontier region with restive minority that got radicalized during era where PRC had poor infra to XJ and couldn't assert control over population. 100 attacks (that western DB can indentify) doesn't happen without support base, either in sympathies/affiliation/funding. So entire region/minority gets the boot, punish those who needs to be punished, reeducate those who needs to be reeducated, even if behaviourly remotely adjacent to seperatism, and a few years later, zero terrorism attacks. False positive excessive? Yes. Even in 2019/20 PRC estimates 5 years of strike hard caught ~13k terrorists in ~1500 organized gangs, ~30k people for ~5000 illegal religious activities. All of which is to say, even if you take CCP official figures, magnitude more people were wrapped up in securitization than the 40k attributed to terrorism problem. But that overbroad dragnet ensures you don't replace 1 terrorist with 2, and targetting 0.1% of the population to prevent future attacks is basically no shit correct political decision for domestic serenity. Which makse the entire genocide narrative even more retarded. PRC could trivially actually genocide, as in destroy, 100% of Ugyhurs in a few weekends with pocket change, but chose laborious/expensive reeducation system and securitization architecture that will need to be put in place for decades precisely because it doesn't want to genocide. If only because it would look bad on Xi's hagiography to reduce 55 minorities to 54. The fact is, if Xi was Obama, he'd be collecting his Nobel Peace prize by now.

ZEITVEKTOR 3y ago

Judging from the current international situation, articles related to China will bring a certain amount of traffic and click-through rates, and most of them are negative, making it difficult to tell the truth from the fake. I am already a little tired of such articles.

senttoschool 3y ago
At some point, people in the west must be weary of all the anti-China propaganda right? Or does it just never end? Like, it's so obvious that they must know that they're being fed propaganda?
- Garvi 3y ago
  Most people by now watched a thousand online lynchings of people who pointed out the propaganda. They're either afraid or they themselves enjoy a good lynching. There is also very little risk of it backfiring as censorship takes care of any successful counter arguments. It's easier to understand through the lens of history, specifically pre-ww2 Germany. The first Germans to turn NAZI were the stereotypical ones : fat, lazy, single, unemployed. Giving these people "ein Feindsbild" and a reason to be proud, without having to move a finger, resonated with these groups. How did they get the rest of the population in line you ask? There's an old German joke from that time: "Four Germans and a nazi walk into a bar. Five nazis are now drinking beer together happily." So to answer your question: No, they're not aware, even though it's this obvious. Reaching these people would mean them having to first admit they were wrong. And that's been pretty much out of style lately.
  - senttoschool 3y ago
    When I first started using HN, I expected posters here to view China through the lens of history and understanding. For example, I expected people here to see through the propaganda that politicians and the mass media spout. I expected people to see issues as grey, and not black and white, good vs evil. I was wrong. The reason why I had originally thought so is because most engineers like history and are reasonably educated.

wddkcs 3y ago

Not at all, Im not advocating for anything. In the same way the GP was as attacked for even asking about the validity of the Uighur genocide claim, you're now misrepresenting my statement. Why? Because the facts aren't the point, division and outrage are the point. You're demonstrating my point, not addressing it.