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Uyghurs and Ukraine are great filters for figuring out who's actually a fascist (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee -5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You neglected to re-repost this critical paragraph.

The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor concluded earlier this year that China’s mass imprisonment and forced labor of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity—but there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide

and then there's this part

Even the most horrific of crimes...can not be considered genocide unless the perpetrators carry out their crimes “with a very specific intent

In context, this means that the Chinese government has not shown this intent. Which means that they can not be considered to be committing genocide. Which is also what the title of the article says.

Is it ableist of me to tell you that you need some reeducation of your own? Not ideological reeducation - I'm talking about a rehash of middle school reading comprehension, because you somehow keep reading this paragraph that says "the Chinese are not committing genocide" and coming back to me saying "this proves that the Chinese are committing genocide".

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You:

state dept: this isn’t a genocide (we still think it’s really bad though)

The source, explicitly:

The cautious conclusions of State Department lawyers do not constitute a judgment that genocide did not occur in Xinjiang

Sorry that English is so difficult for you to parse.

jk, I know you understand, you just find simping for fascism more fun. :)

[+] SSJMarx@lemm.ee -6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That sentence is from the POV of the article's author, not the POV of the state dept's lawyers.

Community college is very cheap, and offers English courses covering this very thing. You should consider it.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

That sentence is from the POV of the article’s author, not the POV of the state dept’s lawyers.

The Biden team during the campaign reached the conclusion that China had carried out genocide several months before Pompeo’s declaration. In August 2020, Biden’s presidential campaign issued a statement concluding that China’s mass internment of Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang amounts to “genocide.” Blinken reiterated that view during his confirmation hearing. Pressed on whether he agreed with Pompeo’s assertion that genocide occurred in Xinjiang, Blinken answered, “That would be my judgment as well.”

But Thomas-Greenfield, however, appeared to hedge during a subsequent confirmation hearing, saying that while the situation “feels like” genocide, she was awaiting the findings of a State Department review. “I know the State Department is reviewing that as we speak,” she said, before later aligning her position with Blinken’s.

“Secretary Blinken and I have made clear that genocide has been committed against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang,” she wrote in response to a question from Sen. Marco Rubio.

Did you read ANY of the article you posted, or do you just read headlines?