>Xinjiang's new legislation says examples of behaviour that could lead to detention include [...] refusing to watch state TV and listen to state radio [...]
Step 1: convince the populations of America, Canada, Western Europe, and 30% of South America that the Han Chinese can be accurately defined as "white."
Step 1a: Redefine Chinese history to include colonization as a volitional act (as opposed to an externally imposed act).
Step 2: make as many parallels as possible (from accurate to completely spurious) between the Uighurs and Armenians, Tutsis, Jews, Cherokee, and any other minority group with an accepted history of genocidal suffering.
Step 3: Make two lists: one will be countries, organizations, and powerful people who stand to gain from Chinese failure; the other will be the same kind of actors who stand to gain from Chinese success. Tally the GDP, net worth, and gross total population of the lists. If list one is bigger than list two, proceed to Step 4. If it is not, SoL.
Step 4: Using the actors from list one, introduce a number of motions, initiatives, and resolutions in the UN, using as many different subcommittees as possible, on any topic relating to China. It doesn't matter what they are about.
Step 4a: Begin developing a war chest via private funding. The ostensible reasons of collection are irrelevant; funnel a static percentage of each initiative into index funds, core commodities, and urban renewal programs that enjoy strong government support.
Step 5: Wait.
Step 5a: Hire as many independent investigators, spies for higher, etc., to document the "genocide" (their documentation can be real or fabricated; accuracy is not the goal, preponderance of evidence is).
Step 6: Sit back in abject horror with your legion of supporters, billions of dollars, and massive effort while the Han perpetrate a massive cull of "undesirables."
Step 7: Take power in the aftermath of WWIII on the basis that you did everything you could to forestall the inevitable, making a particular effort to demonstrate that you will make sure it never happens again.
I think you could have put more emotional pejoratives in there, and your lack of effort shows that you probably don't have enough faith in the cause.
Each of those steps is pulled from actual efforts and initiatives to forestall genocide, non of which has worked. When a world power decides to liquidate a percentage of its population, all that can be done is reactionary in nature; to get involved prior to is to initiate the violence and thereby vindicate the genocidaires.
I know you aren't going to argue in good faith. I know responding to your charge is futile. But your petty name calling triggered me, I guess.
I just wrote an email to info@enoughproject.org to point the fact that this situation is heading towards dangerously close levels to a genocide. I suggest people here do the same to raise more awareness.
I was surprised to see what's happening with the Uighurs doesn't put China on their watchlist despite criterias being fulfilled:
http://endgenocide.org/whos-at-risk/
It has been suggested that, in Xinjiang, "owning too many books" or "receiving email from abroad" contributes to one's likelihood of a police visit and ending up in such a camp.
This story is getting suppressed from HN. As of this writing, it has 25 points and was posted 1 hour ago, but it's already off the front page. In contrast, there's currently a story on the front page about mosh pits that only has 6 points and was also posted 1-2 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18179662
> Is that actually true? Or is there another nuance to the formula that determines what ends up on the front page?
I doubt it. I've noticed that China stories similar to this one are pretty consistently down-weighted once they hit the front page. They'll get knocked to the very bottom of the first page, or more usually the second page, regardless of how many votes they get.
It's a very subtle form of censorship. The post still exists, just with drastically reduced visibility.
Similar repressive policy was used against the native population of Canada. It failed to achieve its intended goals, destroyed lives, and left behind a painful legacy. It's a shame the CCP has decided to take this dark path.
It deeply, deeply failed. Residential schools were an atrocity. I'd show you articles about them but I'm afraid that no matter what I show you, you'll consider it wrong for some reason, so I ask to try to convince yourself that Canada's residential schools were overall awful.
Taking children by force, confining them in education centers, and violently coercing them to assimilate is counterproductive. A third of them went through the residential school system. The land was fully conquered well before the state setup that system. All it's done is produce generation after generation with very good reason to hate and fear the culture that abused them. Not to mention the related damage going through that does. Been to a few reserves before, and what I see mostly isn't good. I consider it a failure because had governments just done nothing and let them be for the last 100 years we'd surely have the same dominant culture now in place regardless. So much harm done for nothing.
Great. They're still persecuting people in a way that might legitimately be described as genocidal, but now they're doing it with the support of Chinese law. If we're going to oppress people and stomp all over human rights, let's be sure that we do it legally.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 55.8 ms ] threadStep 1a: Redefine Chinese history to include colonization as a volitional act (as opposed to an externally imposed act).
Step 2: make as many parallels as possible (from accurate to completely spurious) between the Uighurs and Armenians, Tutsis, Jews, Cherokee, and any other minority group with an accepted history of genocidal suffering.
Step 3: Make two lists: one will be countries, organizations, and powerful people who stand to gain from Chinese failure; the other will be the same kind of actors who stand to gain from Chinese success. Tally the GDP, net worth, and gross total population of the lists. If list one is bigger than list two, proceed to Step 4. If it is not, SoL.
Step 4: Using the actors from list one, introduce a number of motions, initiatives, and resolutions in the UN, using as many different subcommittees as possible, on any topic relating to China. It doesn't matter what they are about.
Step 4a: Begin developing a war chest via private funding. The ostensible reasons of collection are irrelevant; funnel a static percentage of each initiative into index funds, core commodities, and urban renewal programs that enjoy strong government support.
Step 5: Wait.
Step 5a: Hire as many independent investigators, spies for higher, etc., to document the "genocide" (their documentation can be real or fabricated; accuracy is not the goal, preponderance of evidence is).
Step 6: Sit back in abject horror with your legion of supporters, billions of dollars, and massive effort while the Han perpetrate a massive cull of "undesirables."
Step 7: Take power in the aftermath of WWIII on the basis that you did everything you could to forestall the inevitable, making a particular effort to demonstrate that you will make sure it never happens again.
Each of those steps is pulled from actual efforts and initiatives to forestall genocide, non of which has worked. When a world power decides to liquidate a percentage of its population, all that can be done is reactionary in nature; to get involved prior to is to initiate the violence and thereby vindicate the genocidaires.
I know you aren't going to argue in good faith. I know responding to your charge is futile. But your petty name calling triggered me, I guess.
I was surprised to see what's happening with the Uighurs doesn't put China on their watchlist despite criterias being fulfilled: http://endgenocide.org/whos-at-risk/
Contact email taken from: http://endgenocide.org/who-we-are/contact-us/
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611815/who-needs-democrac...
In other news: Y Combinator announced two months ago that it's launching a startup incubator in China: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/14/y-combinator-china-qi-lu/
I doubt it. I've noticed that China stories similar to this one are pretty consistently down-weighted once they hit the front page. They'll get knocked to the very bottom of the first page, or more usually the second page, regardless of how many votes they get.
It's a very subtle form of censorship. The post still exists, just with drastically reduced visibility.
How many natives went through that? How many ended up with children that are more or less fully assimilated into mainstream Canadian culture?
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