Comment on British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses

Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

travel influencers are so frustratingly ignorant and apathetic.

“look, this supermarket sells bread, I see no oppression here”.

those are not valid, logically coherent thoughts.

“someone is walking to a bus stop, I haven’t seen a beating in the streets in the entire 7 minutes it took me to walk to a restaurant outside my hotel in the tourist sector of the largest provincial city.”

“a library? libraries aren’t totalitarian!”

“in conclusion, I’ve eaten dumplings at an airport cafe, rented a bicycle, and bought a hat from a market stall for 18 euro all withput seeing a single uniformed Nazi tattooing anybody in the middle of the street on the way to my dumplings! I don’t know what these disabled victims, journalists and human rights activists are talking about!”

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