but apparently china is oppressive
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Tibet was sold to China in the 20th century. Natives in America were conquered and uprooted centuries ago, and more than once.
Human Rights Watch article for this year. Still oppressive.
Bbbut the uigher genocide! posts link to wiki titled Mistreatment of Uighurs
That Wikipedia page used to have genocide in the title, but they walked it back.
A lie gets halfway around the world before truth puts on its boots.
Tankies: genocide is good actually but only when we do it
The vast majority of muslim nations on earth got together to send delegates to investigate in person, they declared the accusations baseless. ~___~
You're not witty, you're just a coward with a keyboard -- engage honestly or get lost.
Tankies while engaging in bad faith: How dare you engage in bad faith.
Go back to reddit
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(we won't be able to hear them because we stuffed a sock in their mouth)
Two things can be bad
They can, but aren't
I know that people love to use this phrase but like we only have one bad thing here wtf????
This liberal thought-terminating cliché should be added to the slur filter.
What are you even defending here?
What do you think you're opining here about?
Can't you people be a bit more creative? I've seen this same retort word to word multiple times in multiple posts.
waow is that true
two things
like at the same time
it's bad that 96% of ethnic tibetans can speak tibetan?
They can, and they're both the US
https://cwis.org/2021/07/does-china-have-indigenous-peoples/
the anglosphere buried children and genocided the rest of their familes while china built schools -- quit swallowing american propaganda.
american, canadian and australian policies were genocidal. they built residential schools that forcibly removed indigenous children; banned their languages; and caused thousands of deaths. over 1,800 unmarked graves were recently discovered in canada alone and all three countries had a policy of "kill the indian, save the man." canada’s indian act stripped sovereignty, banned ceremonies, and enabled forced sterilizations into the 1970s.
china has nothing close to this. yes, it promotes mandarin in education, but minority languages (tibetan, uyghur, mongolian) are still taught, used and -- most importantly-- not banned. ethnic autonomous regions cover over 60% of china’s territory yet no mass graves; no stolen children; no forced sterilization like in the united states, canada, australia, greenland or even isreal.
In addition to mass detention, government policies have included suppression of Uyghur religious practices,[7] political indoctrination,[8] forced sterilization,[9] forced contraception,[10][11] and forced abortion.[12][13] An estimated 16,000 mosques have been razed or damaged,[2] and hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
I'm not defending America. But you are defending China and you shouldn't.
Always falling back on quoting the liberal Holy Scripture.
The vast majority of muslim nations on earth sent delegates to investigate in person and declared the accusations baseless
NATOPedia isn’t as neutral or objective as people think.
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The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing Salafi terrorist into Xinjiang, and once its efforts failed, it made lemonade out of its lemon by concocting and promoting a genocide narrative.
The only countries pushing this narrative are the “always the same map” imperial core countries, which just so happen to be largely the same ones supporting Israel’s genocide.
Almost no predominantly-Muslim country buys the Uyghur genocide narrative, because they know it’s bullshit, because they talked to the Uyghurs themselves.
https://twitter.com/un_hrc/status/1578003299827171330 #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.
- The Uyghur Human Rights Project is a product of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the American government’s main regime change NGO.
- A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
- The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified
- Uyghur genocide allegations
- American Debunks All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
- US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire
- The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
Genocide is more than just killing, it’s the deliberate destruction of a people including its culture and institutions.
(a) Show me the Uyghur bodies
(b) Show me the serious bodily or mental harm
(c) Show me the conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part
(d) Show me the measures intended to prevent births within the group
In accordance with China's affirmative action policies towards ethnic minorities, all non-Han ethnic groups were subject to different laws and were usually allowed to have two children in urban areas, and three or four in rural areas.
(e) Show me the forcible transfer of children from one group to another group
violent incidents in East Turkestan
I wonder where those Salafi terrorists came from? Oh right: the US, UK, and Israel organized, funded, and trained them, as they did Al Qaeda and the various flavors of ISIS/ISIL, including the “moderate rebels” that just took over Syria. The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent.
Lmao that reddit thread
not even elementary school children are allowed to cite wikipedia anymore because it so biased and wrong. lol
and speaking of bias: nearly half the citations in the references are funded by the us government -- both directly and indirectly. go read to what happened when trump gutted most of usaid and you’ll see how deep the american propaganda factory goes.
or better yet, do yourself a favor -- read anything from the american freedom of information act. the american gov't has effectively been forced to admit it fabricates propaganda and this fact has been public record since the 1970s, americans still believe the propaganda anyways.
This is 2026 article from Human Rights Watch. I feel like the OP is one of the slight propaganda for better view of China.
How many times is Zenz used as a source, directly or indirectly, in that article?
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The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.
The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.
This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.
The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”
None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.
“China voted in favor of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” and your beloved daddy america voted against it, the declaration was being voted on in 2007 when the 5 minority autonomous regions were established between 1947 -1965, it wasn’t until 1975 with the “Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act” did the native americans get autonomy
Why not finish the paragraph?
Even though China voted in favor of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the government has not implemented the plan.
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Cool surface cherry picking. Tibetans are one of the minority groups in China, as opposed to the entirety of indigenous peoples in the US which is the comparison being made. It also only highlights the language, disregarding the cultural and religious practices.
I do think it’s awesome to keep languages alive, but that’s not a whole culture.
In other news, indigenous peoples in the US have their own legal system that applies to their lands and which isn’t easily infringed on by the federal or state governments. That’s not true in China, so while they can speak their language they are still under other types of oppression.
in china minorities get their own autonomous provinces (e.g. Xinjiang for Uyghurs, Tibet for Tibetans) which would be like if the US gave the Navajo nation a whole state with their own autonomy
and their languages on currency
(also you aint slick, imagine having no other points so you scroll through my page, find the other post and copy and paste your comment)
edit: to be clear, I have not said anything. op said "it would be like if this thing existed" and I pointed to that thing existing. any inference you draw from that is your own, and is ultimately a reflection of your thoughts about the argument presented by op. rejection of an argument for a point is not necessarily rejection of the point itself; it is possible to construct a flawed argument to support the point that 1+1=2
not really anywhere close to the size of Guanxi for example, which is the smallest in china
Not to mention the Navajo have zero political represtation
Okay now post the one with the size of the reservations over 100 years and do the same for China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan
cool surface-level confidence. you might want to consider reading a single supreme court decision for the last few decades. congress has plenary power over tribes -- meaning that congress can abolish tribal courts, override tribal verdicts, or sell tribal land without consent whenever it feels like it.
there's also lone wolf v. hitchcock; used last year in castro-huerta where the supreme court ruled that states can prosecute crimes by non-indigenous against indigenous on reservations -- overriding tribal jurisdiction. not to mention that the major crimes act of 1885 stripped tribes of prosecuting felonies like murder. there's also public law 280 imposed state jurisdiction on reservations in six states without a single tribal vote.
so no, tribal legal systems aren't "not easily infringed on." they exist at congress's pleasure. the only difference between the us and china here is that the us has better pr.
Anything's possible when you make shit up
What the fuck are you talking about?

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