Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?
Egon@hexbear.net 1 year agoBoth organisations have acknowledged that there is at the worst a cultural genocide going on - ie. An erasure of culture.
One can wonder how such a genocide is carried out, when the Uyghur language is still taught, Uyghur culture and language is still freely distributed and promoted and Uyghur people are a prominent part of the Chinese popular culture.
Your claim leads me to believe you did not engage with the sources provided to you.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Forced sterilisation (birth rates are down 60% vs about 10% for the rest of China) and forceful reeducation? They don’t care about the language as much as the shared cultural identity separate from China.
Egon@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Did you even look at the carrd? If you’re not gonna engage with the sources, then it’s pretty clear you’re not arguing in goog faith and there’s no reason for this discussion to continue
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m trying to talk in good faith, but I don’t have 10 hours to read about it. I’ve only researched about 1 or 2 hours. But I’m definitely not just taking your website at face value.
If you want to call the discussion off, I’m fine with that. This thread has given an adequate sample of hexbear ideology.
robinn2@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Right, so you didn’t read my carrd and then linked a different source instead (super good faith) that I completely refuted (apparently you felt no need to respond to my complete rebuttal]. So you didn’t read the comment or the response to your rebuttal, and yet you’re saying you’re acting in good faith because you don’t have a lot of time/haven’t done a lot of research? Whatever, then don’t act like you’re qualified to have an opinion.
What does this even mean? “Face value”? It’s a collection of sources. Seriously, if you don’t have the knowledge to even respond to my points, much less my complete refutation of your own points, don’t ghost respond to me acting like I’ve said something crazy to get support in another thread. It’s cowardly and pathetic.
Egon@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Hey I’m glad to hear you point out the good faith stuff. I’m interacting with a few of your site buddies and I gotta say, there’s a whole lot of bad faith stuff going on, so I’m sorta defensive. I’ve provided sources a few times now and just get mocked or called a propagandist for it. Not your fault though, so it is unfair to direct the frustration at you.
I don’t expect you to read it all in one go - there’s a lot of stuff. We don’t have to continue the conversation right now, we can pick it up when you’re ready. I will say that I am not the one who gathered those sources, so beyond doing so e fact-checking and investigation on my own on these claims, I am not the most well-educated on the subject. We have a news mega, which is a great place for these exact discussions, which I would highly recommend. I can try to answer any questions you might have, though I think users like @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net or @robinn2@hexbear.net would be much better for any question that isn’t super basic. I’ll do my best though, and I’m certain there’s a lot I could learn. Again for any real in-depth discussion I’d recommend the news mega.
CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Why would the CPC, in the same breath, exempt the Uyghurs from the One Child Policy but also force sterilization?
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Maybe? Then they can look like they’re not limiting the population while doing it covertly.
CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 1 year ago
I’m Chinese and literally grew up with Uyghurs downstairs in Hubei, they and the Hui family around the block were the only ones with more than 1 kid.
If you’re referring to something Adrian Zenz said about 80% of new IUDs being sold in Xinjiang, he misread a decimal point 328,475 IUDs in Xinjiang out of 3,774,318. 8.7% of IUDs placed in China were in Xinjiang.
News quoted his 80% figure before he had to retract it, but it’s already in the back of people’s minds that China’s forcibly sterilizing Uyghurs.