Post #1678654
2026-04-25 23:02 UTC
They also don’t do cultural genocide, look at videos of random tourists visiting Xinjiang and you’ll see some locals speaking Uyghur, you’ll see mosques, museums, traditional Uyghur food, etc. The previous repression was meant to curve terrorism, it seems to have worked, and things have relaxed afterwards. I don’t see how any of this fits the picture of colonialism.
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@Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 04:08
Well it certainly doesn’t fit the picture I was described! I was told Uyghers were being killed in some cases, and rehoused en masse in others. If what you’re saying is right, and the Uygher culture is allowed to continue unharried outside of radical minorities then I would agree that doesn’t really compare to the horrors of colonization! Is it actually illegal to be queer there too? Or is that also exaggerated?
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@architect@thelemmy.club 2026-04-26 13:24
Meant to curb terrorism. Lol. Sure. We weren’t all born yesterday. We’ve heard all this before.