• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    If what happenend in Eastern Ukrain was genocide, then what is happening to the Uygurs is definitely also genocide. But if what is happening to the Uygurs can’t be genocide, then what has been happening in Ukraine also can’t be genocide.

    What the hell are you talking about? Ukraine was launching artillery shells at civilian targers in Eastern Ukraine. How is that nonviolent?

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      How is incarcerating a significant portion of an ethnic group non-violent?

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        Good question! Do you consider the disproportionate mass incarceration of African Americans a genocide?

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          While there are many systemic issues that result in the disproportionate mass incarceration of African Americans, one needs to recognize this isn’t done to eradicate them. The US needs and uses them to make the poor fight each other rather than unite and fight the rich.

          One also needs to recognize that the US does not incarerate them just for being black. They have created a system that forces poor people into criminality and that also makes african americans disproportionally poor. It’s deeply racist but there are still differences.

          But I’m glad you agree it’s a violent thing to do.

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            one needs to recognize this isn’t done to eradicate them.

            Ah, but we know that the incarceration of Uighurs is done to eradicate them, because, uhh… how exactly?

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              Because thats what reeducation camps are for. To erase the original culture. Doesn’t work as well with skin color.

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                On what basis have you concluded that? Is it not possible that the intent of the camps is to give people education so that they can become more productive members of society and thereby be less prone towards violent extremism? You’re just asserting their purpose with nothing to back it up.