I find it fascinating which instances of governments violently oppressing their own people get the press excited enough to report, and which the press just buries.
IMO you can't just hijack a thread like you're trying to do, if you want to talk about Uyghurs, there are threads about it already, or, just create your own.
I self-replied with a comment about the oppression of Uyghurs in China, as an example. That has been vasselating between 0 points and -5 all day, as the people who want to make sure we suppress the story downvote it, and then others bring it back.
Nobody replies, of course, because it is impossible to actually refute that this is a serious atrocity -- but we aren't supposed to be anti-China right now, so it is just suppressed.
For an even stronger example of suppression (though it effects many fewer people), have a look at the continuing attempts to start a proper genocide against white farmers in South Africa. The NY Times and Washington Post both ran stories about how it was "a conspiracy theory".
Meanwhile, refugees are turning up in Australia begging for asylum after having their land seized, their animals killed, and their families' lives threatened.
Or look at history: we still pretend the Armenian genocide never happened, because admitting it would upset certain important people. Nobody ever actually says it didn't happen -- it's just verboten to mention
I would assume that the downvotes are because you're asking for a thread on the atrocities happening in Chile be hijacked to talk about something else. It's extremely insensitive.
@dang, is there perhaps a loophole in protection against coordinated flagging? While one might argue that the original comment sounded a bit conspirological, the comments mentioning Uyghurs were not breaking any guidelines or doing anything deserving to be flagged.
Sadly eye injuries are very common during protests, Hong-Kong, Catalonia and even Paris are recent examples.
Society should learn to condemn the use of rubber bullets the same way it condemns real bullets.
One strategy by protesters that have worked well against government using force during the protests in armenia last year, was constant exaggerated attention to the peaceful nature of the protest. Constantly reminding that no aggression, not even rude words should be directed to the police, denouncing anyone who would attempt to use aggression or even litter, retreating when police was trying to use force, and assembling in another place, made it very difficult for government to find an opening to start using force. Of course this strategy can't be used everywhere, but starting with it can help even if government and police are entirely antagonistic.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 39.1 ms ] thread...can we talk about the Uyghurs of Xinjiang?
Can that be what this thread is now about?
Nobody replies, of course, because it is impossible to actually refute that this is a serious atrocity -- but we aren't supposed to be anti-China right now, so it is just suppressed.
For an even stronger example of suppression (though it effects many fewer people), have a look at the continuing attempts to start a proper genocide against white farmers in South Africa. The NY Times and Washington Post both ran stories about how it was "a conspiracy theory".
Meanwhile, refugees are turning up in Australia begging for asylum after having their land seized, their animals killed, and their families' lives threatened.
Or look at history: we still pretend the Armenian genocide never happened, because admitting it would upset certain important people. Nobody ever actually says it didn't happen -- it's just verboten to mention
downvoted until invisible and also flagged, because mentioning the stuff you're just supposed to forget about gets you banned from the internet.
There's nothing "insensitive" about pointing out the hypocrisy and fake sympathy offered up by the official narrative
(ooh, clever, this was also flagged within seconds. The efforts at censorship and narrative control are so transparent and boring)
Society should learn to condemn the use of rubber bullets the same way it condemns real bullets.
One strategy by protesters that have worked well against government using force during the protests in armenia last year, was constant exaggerated attention to the peaceful nature of the protest. Constantly reminding that no aggression, not even rude words should be directed to the police, denouncing anyone who would attempt to use aggression or even litter, retreating when police was trying to use force, and assembling in another place, made it very difficult for government to find an opening to start using force. Of course this strategy can't be used everywhere, but starting with it can help even if government and police are entirely antagonistic.