There are 2 genocides actively occurring (or at least in the forefront).
Western media does not shy away from calling one a genocide (as they should), but refuses to call the other one a genocide.
Don’t forget about the US. We’ve been genociding Hispanic migrants for a while now.
Why the heck are you getting downvoted? You’re absolutely right, it didn’t stop when we found out about it or when biden became president
It looks like the closest thing the US is genociding is temporarily separating children from parents to ensure they’re actually parents and not traffickers and to confirm their history.
Here’s more for those wondering. It doesn’t meet genocide definitions. It received major lashback when they did. A federal judge halted it.
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/08/1218336878/immigration-family-separation-judge-settlement-border
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQ4-VNaG3s&pp=ygURY2hhbm5lbCA1IG1pZ3JhbnQ%3D
What’s changed between when genocide was uncovered and now? What makes biden’s policy less genocidal than trump’s? Or have you always been a genocide denier, even when the concentration camps and their conditions first saw a bunch of coverage?
EndlessApollo
What’s changed between when genocide was uncovered and now? What makes biden’s policy less genocidal than trump’s? Or have you always been a genocide denier, even when the concentration camps and their conditions first saw a bunch of coverage?
I just root my understanding in reality and verifiable sauce. Like I did while nobody else followed suit.
It does meet the UNs definition of genocide.
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
They’re not transferring kids to indoctrinate them though. It’s bullshit they’re doing it but it’s not genocide.
The definition says nothing about indoctrination.
That’s the only way to remove their culture though… unless you kill them. Separation is not genocide, and is why no legit sources have called the USA out on it
They’re guilty of number 4 as well, there’s been multiple reports of immigrant women being sterilized against their will
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/22/ice-gynecologist-hysterectomies-georgia
I guess people don’t know that the UNs definition of genocide includes more than just killing a bunch of people.
It’s all about worthy and unworthy victims again. Worthy victims, the Uyghur because China bad and unworthy victims, the Palestinians because Israel good. One is seen as a threat, the other one as an ally so they get different media treatment. But in the end, people are getting exterminated systematically.
There are a lot more than two, tbh.
Yes, hence the caveat of being in the forefront.
Western media does not shy away from calling one a genocide (as they should), but refuses to call the other one a genocide.
“Refuses” is a strong word. Genocide as an accusation against Israel has been prominent in news headlines as of late.
At least 5. Arguably the Israel-Gaza situation, Russia- Ukraine, Sudan(also with Russian involvement), China’s treatment of the Uyghurs, and Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya.
Obviously, those screeching loudest about genocide X, are inevitably entirely quiet about genocide Y, while accusing country Z of hypocrisy. I haven’t named any sides, but if anyone reads this comment and thinks I’m talking them, perhaps it’s time for some introspection.
Not that whataboutism is particularly relevant for those suffering. But hey, why would anyone let human suffering and nuance get in the way of some political point scoring, real politik or a nice online shouting match.
Meanwhile we walk ever closer towards the precipice of the climate apocalypse. If it’s isn’t already too late.
We all say “never again” but didn’t do shit for Tigray. There was no big sticky issue like China and the Uyghurs that would stop an intervention - as long as it’s safely not in the news
We just need to get this world war over with so we can start rebuilding… All this waiting around is exhausting.
Let the nukes fly! Mutants will reign supreme!
Amos Burton calling for the churn? Didn’t have that on today’s bingo card.
Don’t forget Modi and the muslims in India!!
If only more people were like me - lie on the sofa with laptop on belly eating ice ream.
No more genocide. Much more shitposting.
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Only if you kill an entire race of people.
Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
And that’s not even the first time they did that.
Up to 2,000,000 people were killed during the Partition of India, the majority being Muslim.
It’s always a first time, every time!
Tibet is still ongoing, it’s just not done by sending them in camps but by sending Chinese to dilute the Tibetan population.
Following this logic China is guilty in quite a few places
That’s on their own territory and I hope you’re not talking about some conspiracy bullshit about replacing whites on the west coast of the US/Canada or whatever
Manchuria is already gone so there’s no point in including that
Actual argument
Hong Kong isn’t genocide, they’re voting for it
As they attempt to remove Cantonese from spoken tongue
Nothing active yet but they got in hot water when they hosted the olympics for claiming Korean culture as their own
And when they claimed Ghengis Khan was Chinese because they currently own Southern Mongolia
I would argue the Israeli/Palestine one.
Hamas wants to genocide Israel (literally in their founding document) but failing miserably. Absolutely guilty of a war crime or two.
Israel is very likely guilty of a number of war crimes due to proportionality, failure to minimize civilian casualties, and reasonable cause for infrastructure damage and blockades. The fact they have only killed off something like 3% of the population with this much damage and overwhelming force means they aren’t committing genocide, or they are doing a pretty poor job of it. Individuals and small groups are likely killing off civilians and should be held to account (public hanging is a good way to do it) but question the broader Israeli goal.
Hamas absolutely guilty of war crime (clear cut), could add genocide if they were winning, Israel unsure as much less clear cut. Could they be - absolutely.
God damn it, why are there people that think that genocide is competition in effectiveness on every damn side?
Primary genocide requirement is intent. And out of five definitions, only one involves outright killing.
Read the convention before arguing about genocide. (1) (2)
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Hamas can’t be guilty of war crimes because they are not a country or international government organization. They can’t legally wage war. War crimes can only be committed by a country that can legally wage war.
Hamas is a local government / criminal organization. They can’t commit war crimes any more than the Mafia can. They just commit regular crimes and hate crimes (regular crimes motivated by racial hatred), which they are obviously doing.
Israel is probably guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide. Forcing millions of people to move is genocide. They are not waging a war on any country, so legally this is just a large police action.
Who do you blame for mafia or cartels running free in a country? The perpetrators and the government. The Israeli government has the obligation to protect people living in Israel and what it claims as its territory in Gaza. They haven’t done that for Israelis, Gazans, or residents of the West Bank.
This is where a few things start to blur. Hamas is both the government of Palestine and a designated terrorist organization by everyone but the UN security council (impotent veto pricks).
War crimes can only be committed in state-state conflict - Palestine v Israel, state - state. But at the same time terrorists cannot as it is not war - its conflict (actually the definition). So can Palestine be done for war crimes but its government and militants not? Terrorists don’t get protection in protected places like hospitals and temples and therefore remove their protected status, but they can’t be done for endangering civilians as they aren’t a state that has to follow the rules of war.
Just say you’re a Zionist.
I like you. Succinct.
Just say you don’t actually have an argument and resort to lesser insults than my 6 year old would use at school.
Can you not? The meme is about the Uyghurs.
I could, but that’s not the part I’m disagreeing with
So your argument against the fact of Israel committing genocide is they aren’t doing it fast enough? Wow.
Kind of?
Historically at least it’s a pretty normal amount of civilian casualties and their stated goal of Hamas vs Palestine helps a lot.
But everything outside the conflict should be enough, it wasn’t exactly paradise to be a Palestinian living in Israel pre-conflict
What do you mean by pre-conflict? collective punishment has been Israeli policy since its founding.
Before the current situation ie. October 7th Israel has been quite hostile to Palestinians
I think the thing that many aren’t following is that there are other war crimes than genocide, and one doesn’t mean the other.
ICJ ruled that the claims of genocide are credible, so I’m going to keep calling it genocide.
Correct - that’s the South African led one isn’t it? The 60 odd page full of legal jargon one i read a few days ago? Posted the same time as the Middle East now article that was edited?
Because the conclusions they came to, in section 63 off the top of my head, is that there are credible claims, and the best way forward is to call for a cease fire so claims can be investigated. It did not say Israel is committing genocide - it said there are events and actions that need to be investigated on both sides.
It discusses the Israel blockade of aid, and Israel response as to why it was done. That attacks were carried out on civilian infrastructure that Hamas was using… and the blatant attack on civilians that sparked off this whole new round of suffering.
One war crime does not justify the other, make no mistake I am not claiming that. But it seems awfully continent how many people are taking one line of a very detailed and balanced report and ignoring the entirety of the context of it.
Well let’s apply this argument to every other part of life - because yes, if you are killing off a population when you have an overwhelming force yes it will be quick.
Is 3% of a population being Mexican an invasion, or is it people living their life?
Is a 100pt to 103pt basketball game a clear example of the best team, or a small skill difference?
Is 3% of crime being committed by a black person indicative of a crime driven cultural issue, or a few people?
A 3% death rate in a modern conflict in a high density urban environment is not a genocide - civilians die in war. Have many been killed needlessly- absolutely. Are there questions on how Israel has been operating - absolutely. Are there individuals in the IDF that have deliberately killed civilians in cold blood - about as close to 100% as you can get. Is it a genocide - no.
Holocaust denial? Four years isn’t fast enough to be a genocide.
Nope - we have evidence of a systematic approach to killing off multiple cultures. Plans, objectives, methods and an entire system of extermination in place.
Your effectively comparing the Nazi holocaust to their invasion of France that also killed civilians.
Is Israel’s force in Palestine proportionate and justified, in your opinion?
That’s a lot of words to say you’re racist and pro-genocide, but you go off, I guess.
Thats alot of loaded words thrown out without any backing, evidence or legal bias.
Or was it too much reading so you just threw out the first insult you could?
Icj ruled it a genocide so that’s what I’m calling it. You’re doing a lot of work to justify genocide. Do you find that rewarding?
ARMENIAN OBLAST IS FUCKING GONE
Absolutely. I went through a couple of revisions before settling on 2 based on being current and in the forefront.
And also the ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azeirbayan, which may or may not have a round 2 in the actual country of Armenia.
Myanmar
No way a long list of Western media outfits who also lied about Iraq until we went to war with them are lying again?? That’s Crazy!!
So it’s much more likely to you that a country would be honest in reporting its own genocide?
A country with a “democratically elected” dictator? The same one constantly threatening an island off their coast with full scale invasion while simultaneously gaslighting the rest of the world about it? That country that regularly and consistently talks the very same shit about the west that you’re accusing the west of? The only country on the planet with a nationwide firewall preventing their own citizens from seeing sources they don’t control?
You trust their media because “the west is bad”?
At best, China is just as bad as the west. At worst, they’re killing their own people in broad daylight.
We see what instance you’re here from. We know you’re here shilling your motherland. Good luck with that.
tankies just cannot hold in their minds that two rival things can both be bad at the same time.
western countries have done bad things, therefore let’s treat anyone anti-west - putin, al-assad, xi, kim, milosevic etc - as innocent heroic saviors, is how they think.
they have a very small set of inviolable axioms which lead to an absurdly simple and shallow “goodies and baddies” view of the world and history.
constantly threatening an island off their coast
Educate yourself. Find Kinmen island on a map and see for yourself how close it is to a major Chinese city. Now ask yourself why the US has planted special forces there. Who is threatening who exactly? Remember, most countries have gone to war over far less flagrant violations of sovereignty in the interest of security. China is straight up pacifist here. Bad example.
At worst, they’re killing their own people in broad daylight.
Show me even one instance of evidence for this and I’ll take you seriously.
We see what instance you’re here from.
I’ve been on Lemmy since before federation when the only two instances were Lemmy.ml or Lemmygrad. So what is your point exactly?
Educate yourself
Cherry picks and misrepresents one single point out of six without actually addressing the main point
Ok buddy, struggle a little harder. You’ve still proven my point. Maybe go back to your echo chamber where China is a world hero and you can all nod your head in agreement
You want me to debate you on six different gish-galloped points? Dude, you are way to self important. I have better things to do than debate you on China all day. Maybe try addressing my first and second rebuttal and I’ll get to the other ones. Veggies before dessert.
I won’t address your points
Enough said, buddy. We know you won’t. Why should I even consider yours?
gish-galloped
Pretty sure a prerequisite of a gish-gallop is that all the things listed are irrelevant. The point is that China is not a trust worthy nation. Those are reasons why. Although I guess it’s easy for you to mislabel it and ignore. Seems like a pretty self-important thing to do, so I’m not surprised you’d accuse me of that as well.
Go spend your time elsewhere then. I’m sure your echo chamber misses you. And enjoy your downvotes.
I won’t address your points
I didn’t say that. I did address your points. More than you have addressed mine.
enjoy your downvotes
I always enjoy downvotes when they come from bitter liberals who have never thought outside of the ideological box they were put inside
I did address your points
Did you? You cherry picked a sub point, and you asked for evidence for an “at worst” situation. You’re a shill
And I enjoy shutting down tankies who can’t seem to see that China is not any better. I work with Chinese people. I see their perspectives. Unless you live in China, I’m going to laugh at you for telling me I live in an ideological box. And if you do live in China, I’m going to laugh harder because your government is watching you and making sure that you stay in your ideological box.
Thought you had better things to do than argue with a liberal?
DW is a German news agency, I have a hard time believing they were part of the Iraq lie
Nah, they hyped up the weapons of mass destruction claim same as everyone.
Meanwhile suspicion is growing that Iraq might actually be actively producing mass weapons of destruction.
The German daily, “Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung” reported recently about a new nuclear programme. Relying on trustworthy reports of the Federal German News Service (BND) from January, the newspaper said that Iraq was buying “nuclear relevant basic chemicals”.
Intelligence sources had also found indications that Iraq is continuing with its “Bio-Toxin-Programme” and is “building a mobile B-weapons capacity”, the newspaper said.
This could mean that Iraq could achieve the high nuclear status of 1990.
Critical support for Comrade Xi’s Uyghur Genocide! (but also it’s not happening, and if it was it’s justified anyway)
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
I understand this is sarcastic, but cultural genocide should never be justified, in China or Palestine.
I wish the west would have the balls to call Israel out too. But eh, one genocide at a time I guess. Fuck China
Its not genocide if my team is doing it. I’m just fighting the terrorists. They’re doing the genocide.
Fuck China
If the US and China really do get into a war and bombs start falling all over the East Pacific, I’ve got to wonder whether the dead in Macau or the Singapore or Indonesia will garner the same pity as the folks in Kiev and the Gaza strip. I’ve got to wonder how cavalier Americans will feel about war if bombs ever reach their way to Hawaii or California or Texas.
You can crack open a history book and see (with pictures) what America has done in the past when bombed/attacked. You don’t have to imagine you’re the first person to envision such a thing.
Well… I’m guessing you don’t know about Pearl Harbour? The twin towers perhaps?
Those are the usual responses when America is attacked.
Meanwhile, in US mainstream media…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/middleeast/hind-rajab-death-israel-gaza-intl/index.html
Took them just 4 months
West is calling out Israel - its just following the process rather than throwing words out without investigating
Why didn’t they follow the process with China? OIC did and find nothing wrong https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4447&refID=1250
Are Muslims supposed to be gaslighted into believing the governments enabling their slaughter in Palestine, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Myanmar, care about them? Or is this just about demonizing China?
The IOC spent more time going on about cartoons of the prophet Mohammed or defending China, than war crimes in Syria or Sudan. Maybe you should hold the Americans and Israelis to the same standards as the Arab world which doesn’t actually seem to care about Muslim lives either, except when it’s politically convenient or fashionable.
It’s pretty obvious organisations like the IOC and Arab leaders care more about making money, than they do about Arab lives, which is why they chose to ignore Uyghur Muslim suffering. Luckily for them, useful idiots like you will happily parrot propaganda, conspiracy theories, and useful distractions, ensuring the Arab man on the street will never have an actual say in politics. Which allows Arab leaders to continue doing business as usual, make deals with the Russians, Chinese, Americans and sooner or later even the Israelis.
But hey, the Communist Party of China thanks you for your service.
If the west’s media lies about Israel, why do you trust them to tell the truth about China?
Lemmy guess; the only true and honest media is Chinese, right?
Honest question- are there mass killings as well? I did not follow this topic for a while, but I thought it is only mass
incarcerationreeducation campaign.Debated, but the things you mentioned qualify as genocide too because they also (slowly) destroy an ethnic group.
As far as I can tell just forced abortions and sterilization. It’s difficult to discern fact from propaganda.
There are multiple ways of making a people disappear
- Simply killing the people, this most agreed definition of genocide (shoah, armenians)
- Sterilizing everyone (various indigenous people like in Canada). You don’t kill anyone but you enfringe on the right to have kids. And you basically make a people disappear in a couple generations.
- Forced assimilation. The people are not killed and their genes stay in the pool, but their culture die off. Often accompanied by bad treatment, kidnapping etc. Sometimes called culturcide or ethnocide.
All three are considered genocide but the gravity of each can be debatted.
As I understand in Xinjiang, the third one seems confirmed, the second one possibly, and the first one probably not. Feel free to correct me.
Is it a genocide if genes are not destroyed? It is forceful cultural assimilation. Not everything bad has to be called genocide. There are other evils in the world, some of them are similar.
Shhhh. It’s called a motte and bailey tactic. Come out strong with claims of genocide, but when you can’t back them up, oh no, it was alwyas a Cultural genocide. Then when an actual genocide happens in Palestine, you can deflect by saying Let’s not forget about the other “genocides”! All Genocides Matter!
I think all that needs to happen is cultural erasure, which is different from assimilation.
But I am not sure if cultural erasure is called genocide by most people. I also do not think that complete cultural erasure is what China is doing. It erases only religious portion.
In USSR religion was forcefully removed. But nobody called that genocide.
I agree, that’s up to debate. Genocide is killing the “genus”, the family in latin. In plain english, it’s killing a “people”. But what’s a people? The individuals that compose it, or its culture, traditions and memory? That’s subjective I’m afraid.
At least I hope we can agree that both are pretty bad.
What if we talk about jihadists? ISIS? Such people are often jailed, and it is considered humane if they are convinced to drop their ideology. Are we doing genocide too?
The issue most people have with jihadists and ISIS is that they abuse many human rights, first among them murder. Not beliefs, acts. And human rights is exactly what people are blaming China for, too.
Now jail is contentious. Freedom is a human right. How much and how should we deprive someone’s rights to protect the rights of others? I don’t have the answer
Who defines human rights? Why human rights are greater than religion? And if they are, then should we round up most of the Islamists, which is significant part of Muslim population? If not, then we are OK with them violating human rights (and women rights specifically, too)? But not with China?
I didn’t know the concept of human right was not consensual, thanks. Despite you opening that topic, I notice that you still use the concept in your argument, you must have a personal definition in your mind.
If not, then we are OK with them violating human rights (and women rights specifically, too)?
That:
the Islamists, which is significant part of Muslim population
is a strong statement that requires a very large study across the very diverse muslim populations in the world. Gonna need a citation on this one.
And most westerners that accuse China of human right abuses are equally not okay with islamists’ abuses, so there’s no dichotomy.
It’s a unique tragedy of the human animal that how we label an atrocity is central to the question of what to do about it.
An alien might very well assume that humans worship words because some of them are symbols of real power to eclipse any icon, fetish, or talisman.
Has any holy book ever inspired the devotion that the dictionary enjoys? What is a Supreme Court judge other than a robed literary priest endowed with the power to declare what words mean?
What is a Supreme Court judge other than a robed literary priest endowed with the power to declare what words mean?
Black’s Law Dictionary even looks like a bible!
Any recent updates?
Adrian Zenz
Yes, but no. Zenz has exaggerated what is happening, but human rights groups’ limited investigations show that their is a disruption to the culture.
Yes lmfao. There’s absolutely nothing far fetched about dime a dozen imperialist western media towing the line and propagandizing about state enemies. It has happened countless times before. If you think it’s improbable, you haven’t been paying attention to modern history.
TIL the independent UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch and the International Association of Genocide Scholars are “dime a dozen imperialist western media”.
On a completely unrelated note, if you defend genocidal regimes, you’re a fascist cunt.
Good, so we agree.
Nah, I don’t think we will agree on much.
Let’s start with this: it’s “toeing” the line. Toeing. Think about it for a moment, you hateful, uneducated prick.Of course we don’t. You’ve hallucinated that some western organizations claimed China is committing genocide when they have not. Similar to the hallucinated evidence propping up the claims they have actually made. I would not want to agree with someone with such a tenuous grasp on reality.
Yes lmfao. There’s absolutely nothing far fetched about dime a dozen sycophantic eastern media towing the line and propagandizing about state enemies. It has happened countless times before. If you think it’s improbable, you haven’t been paying attention to modern history.
Nice distract from Gaza
Nice distract from ukraine
Nice distract from climate change (looking forward to seeing where this goes)
Nice distraction from the bees dying
Nice distraction from the uprise of right-wing extremism in the political landscape of multiple nations.
Nice distraction from my back hurting
Ain’t nothing distracting from that
Well, two bad things can happen at once.
Crap
Skinner is like the flatearthers… “its a conspiracy among ~several million people and several nations, they’re just very good at keeping the facts to themselves”
Who isn’t doing or aiding genocide these days?
I did some just this morning.
I’m sure we’ve all done a little bit, even by accident.
🎶Everyone’s a little bit r̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶ genocidal…🎶
Before the national security law SCMP was often trustworthy.
SCMP always sided with China for the more pressing matters
It’s wild that if that’s replaced with Israel, the next panel is actually just true
Many of the list is calling for investigation into Israeli war crimes, prosecution of those responsible, and a pause of conflict to investigate and assess the possibility of genocide (thanks SA).
Its not true… yet…
You forgot to condemn the Organization for Islamic Cooperation and most Turkic and Muslim countries for their silence on the Uyghur genocide. Muslims don’t care for one another like the West cares for them. They only pretend to care about Palestinians because they are antisemitic.
The brave people at VOA were quick to condemn them. https://www.voanews.com/a/organization-of-islamic-cooperation-accused-of-ignoring-uyghur-muslims-in-china/6501070.html
/s in case it isn’t obvious
If you googled the OIC report on Uyghur after they visited Xinjiang you will only get results for western outlets condemning it https://www.google.com/search?q=oic+uyghur+repprt&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
They only pretend to care about Palestinians because they are antisemitic.
No its usually money lol. KSA and every surrounding country will happily continue to literally kill people who stand in their way whether it be against Israel or even basic human rights which they deny by denying citizenship unless you’re born to a citizen.
Most of the Muslim countries were also caught buying munitions and spyware from Israel too.
Also you shouldn’t put “West” into one category. Some countries do care about Muslims to varying degrees. Germany is pretty nice. USA only cares if you’ve become a citizen, otherwise screw off. France has always said screw off, and loves to exploit Africa well after colonialism ended.
Both UK and France convinced the USA to also be complacent in the Bosnian genocide, something the USA had no political reason to support like how they support Israel. All because UK and France didn’t want a Muslim country in Europe.
So Muslim countries and Muslims in general are afraid of China but not the West or India? It seems odd they aren’t speaking up on it but the West is. They are speaking up about everything else but the West mostly isn’t.
It is extremely racist to lump one of the largest demographics into one category and act like you are speaking for them lol
Islam itself is fractured into a ton of different groups that identify and want different things. Why are you trying to throw a blanket on it all?
Also any post that mentions Muslims and China you care so much to muddy the waters about. Hm
أروح أتكلم مع جدار أحسن لي.
Very nice signature You got there friend; but I still can’t make out the name… What’s Your name ?
Least obvious Saudi government agent. Do you also need my maiden name?
Go do that and continue trying to legitimize your ability to speak for everyone.
Imagine if cause I spoke English I spoke for all English speaking people. That would be considered ignorant, racist and likely I’m probably not right.
Also it is the 21st century. You can just google translate stuff you doing this proves no sense of legitimacy so I dunno after you’re done maybe jump off that wall too?
