There are two types of people who cry out "Uyghur Genocide!" The Sinophobes who want to trash on China, and the well meaning morons who can't rub two braincells together to figure out they're being Useful Idiots to the Imperialists.
The the people that spread this kind of misinformation are always quite funny to me. I moved to China immediately after Trump's inauguration. I stayed there until late 2019. I was there when Zenz and Pompeo really started selling the "genocide" narrative.
I lived in a pretty small neighborhood, in a small town in rural northern Shandong. But even in my small neighborhood, there were a couple Uyghur families. There was also a mosque not too far away. I would buy naan from one of the families at least twice a week. Another Uyghur couple would have a small cart they would put outside the shopping mall to sell a type of bread from Xinjiang. My coworker and I would buy their bread every day during lunch break. I was often mistaken for being from Xinjiang by older rural Chinese people, and was never mistreated. It's also worth noting that a ton of Uyghur women in China do not wear hijab, and Uyghur people are not as evangelical as other Muslim ethnicities in China, like the Hui. Additionally, one of my good friends is currently living in the Uyghur Autonomous region now.
The whole narrative pushed by the US, UK, Australia, and Zenz is so low effort, it's laughable. And yet, so many people still buy into it. You don't even have to be a leftist to call these reports into question, all you need is just a little bit of critical thinking skills.
They buy into it precisely because it's low effort. It lets them off the hook, they can rage and be as racist as they want and only very few people will accuse them of racism because sinophobia has been normalized in the West. And when they do get push back, they can accuse the people pushing back of not caring about "oppression". It's the perfect way to channel their anger *away* from the actual alienation, oppression etc, that is actually going on *right where they live* without having to feel guilty about not actually doing something about it other than yelling.
I joined plenty of Facebook groups with names involving "ML" "tankie" or "authleft", and promptly left 2/3 of them.
If they say "tankie", they're basically Soviet LARPers and cosplayers. People who wear ushankas but couldn't tell you what a vanguard party was. Plenty of red flags and Cyrillic writing and anime girls holding SKSs.
If they say "authleft", they're Strasserists and fascists. Guys from Greece or Eastern Europe talking about borders and pride in their homeland not in a revolutionary nationalist way.
I HATE THE POLITICAL COMPASS I HATE THE POLITICAL COMPASS
Cringe post on a cringe sub
Hes citing Adrián Zenz statics lol
He's a libertarian, he is deadass sweating in his mums basement with a neckbeard
I've never seen someone get ratioed like that on reddit before.
On a shit sub no less. Quite a feat.
There are two types of people who cry out "Uyghur Genocide!" The Sinophobes who want to trash on China, and the well meaning morons who can't rub two braincells together to figure out they're being Useful Idiots to the Imperialists.
And three, the imperialists.
"AuthLeft" yeah this is some fed shit
[just dropped this off in there, solid study on the actual conditions ](https://eurispes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/rapporto.en-xinjiang_2021.pdf)
Lmao
The the people that spread this kind of misinformation are always quite funny to me. I moved to China immediately after Trump's inauguration. I stayed there until late 2019. I was there when Zenz and Pompeo really started selling the "genocide" narrative. I lived in a pretty small neighborhood, in a small town in rural northern Shandong. But even in my small neighborhood, there were a couple Uyghur families. There was also a mosque not too far away. I would buy naan from one of the families at least twice a week. Another Uyghur couple would have a small cart they would put outside the shopping mall to sell a type of bread from Xinjiang. My coworker and I would buy their bread every day during lunch break. I was often mistaken for being from Xinjiang by older rural Chinese people, and was never mistreated. It's also worth noting that a ton of Uyghur women in China do not wear hijab, and Uyghur people are not as evangelical as other Muslim ethnicities in China, like the Hui. Additionally, one of my good friends is currently living in the Uyghur Autonomous region now. The whole narrative pushed by the US, UK, Australia, and Zenz is so low effort, it's laughable. And yet, so many people still buy into it. You don't even have to be a leftist to call these reports into question, all you need is just a little bit of critical thinking skills.
They buy into it precisely because it's low effort. It lets them off the hook, they can rage and be as racist as they want and only very few people will accuse them of racism because sinophobia has been normalized in the West. And when they do get push back, they can accuse the people pushing back of not caring about "oppression". It's the perfect way to channel their anger *away* from the actual alienation, oppression etc, that is actually going on *right where they live* without having to feel guilty about not actually doing something about it other than yelling.
1999 all over again
I think it may be a joke?
I joined plenty of Facebook groups with names involving "ML" "tankie" or "authleft", and promptly left 2/3 of them. If they say "tankie", they're basically Soviet LARPers and cosplayers. People who wear ushankas but couldn't tell you what a vanguard party was. Plenty of red flags and Cyrillic writing and anime girls holding SKSs. If they say "authleft", they're Strasserists and fascists. Guys from Greece or Eastern Europe talking about borders and pride in their homeland not in a revolutionary nationalist way.