Everytime I see something about Uyghurs outside China they all believe in the genocide narrative. Are there any exemptions?

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    Having been there, the ones that know about the western narrative find it pretty insulting. They are very quick to mention it to set the record straight, too. I never once had to ask.

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      It always amazed me how Westerners keep up this narrative while you can just visit the place lol. There are hundreds of videos on YouTube about people visiting Xinjiang. Though people will say those are paid shills.

      All this while we are at the same time seeing an actual genocide being live streamed 24/7 while nobody does anything about it.

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        Almost all Americans have flat earther level mental degradation. They literally believe anyone that says anything in disagreement with their beliefs is either a paid actor or has been fooled by paid actors. Depending entirely on how well they know the person.

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    I met just one 50+ year old Uyghur lady in Switzerland, who was quick to point out she was oppressed in China and that “they aren’t even allowed to learn their language at school”.

    She couldn’t get staffed on any project because, officially, her language skills were pretty bad, but she complained to me that she is being discriminated against, because “she is from China”.

    Not a year later, her Swiss employers fired her and I sincerely doubt she had much success afterwards.

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    2 days ago

    This is like finding a cuban american that is not a gusano, there might be some but will be hard to find. Uyghurs that actually live in china have more credibility imo, there are several uyghur douyin content creators out there.

    There was one polyglot uyghur that trolled westerners in omegle or an app similar precisely about this, i will try finding it.