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I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

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Re: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

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Post by andyv »

iaw wrote: post #30
bigpumpkin wrote: post #24

I'm curious why this man was denied a US visa in 2018 despite an invitation from Congress to speak about his experience. [1] [1] https://apnews.com/article/dc4062529014451e914ab361b3987afd

My guess would be politics. Congress in the US is democratically controlled while the Senate and Presidency are republican controlled. The current administration is fairly anti-Muslim and has ignored the Uighar issues entirely, the current administration likely told the State Department not to issue the visa.

In the US, "Congress" is both the House of Representatives and the Senate, not just the House.

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Post by Shared404 »

dang wrote: post #138
iongoatb wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment was censored because it was critical of communism.

Because it was lame. You've posted 4 of these. That's abusive so please stop.

Out of curiosity, is there a HN equivalent to removeddit? There have been situations where I would have liked to be able to see if something had been edited, or look and confirm what the past version of a comment had been.

Re: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

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Post by bleepblorp »

nendroid wrote: post #37

This is horrible. No doubt this is an allergic immune response to terrorism. The actions here on a different level than what's going on in Hong Kong, possibly because of this: "In July 2009, riots broke out in Xinjiang in response to a violent dispute between Uyghur and Han Chinese workers in a factory and result in over 100 deaths. Following the riots, Uyghur radicals killed dozens of Chinese citizens in coordinated…

> This is horrible. No doubt this is an allergic immune response to terrorism.

That was the start of Chinese persecution of the Uyghurs, but the current leadership in China has adopted a broad policy of persecuting racial minorities. I'm not sure what their ultimate motivations are but they are targeting many, if not most, of China's non-Han ethnic groups without regard to whether they pose a terrorism risk or not.

Re: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

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Post by monksy »

tomc1985 wrote: post #162

This post needs to be higher in the list. Everyone that the CCP deputizes as one of their spies needs to have their nose held to this shit.

Someone's social score went down. / Someone isn't going to be allowed to leave China.

(Why was this statement made? This is a country that does not like criticism, and the routinely will try to stop it.)

Re: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

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Post by morelisp »

yeetman21 wrote: post #134
gambiting wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it isn't, and it doesn't take much research to find out why. Any time the Nazis did it(like in Lvov) it took a huge amount of work to help with burrying/burning the bodies, Nazis didn't want to do it so they would conscript the local population, which was then likely to strike back as they knew exactly what would happen to them. If you told people you were "relocating" them they were far more likely to come peacef…

Completely false. The transportation and logistical requirement alone would have outweighed the costs of a mass grave or pyre.

Is this some bizarre new form of holocaust denial? "Yes, it happened, but the Nazis _could_ have been so much worse!"

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Post by baybal2 »

mqus wrote: post #66
mixedbit wrote: post #42

Why 39 minutes old submission with 148 up-votes is ranked 13th on the HN front page? The first entry at this moment is a 41 minutes old submission with 43 points, the 2nd entry is 59 minutes old with 35 points. Is this because this post is heavily flagged?

Purely going by measures, this post has way more comments than the referenced one, which usually puts a post a bit lower on the top list (afaik). On the other hand, political topics are generally not that welcome here, especially because it will mostly spark flamewars and does not really help anyone. As evidence for the "dislike" of purely political topics, there was at least one political detox period where politica…

Yep, and I am very sceptical of claims how topics like these tend to plunge from front page right during West Coast work hours, and the tolerance to "controversial" topics magically go up closer to end of the day, and the weekend.

You can't imaging a downvoting, or flagging ring being online with such regularity, and reaction time as if it was a full time job for their members.

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Post by smitty1e »

missedthecue wrote: post #159
naderkhalil wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if calling our representatives can help

What can they do?

Representatives help compile the political will to apply economic pressure.

There are no magic wands here.

Re: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

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Post by bleepblorp »

DevKoala wrote: post #110
nendroid wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Are you justifying China for eradicating a whole culture and its people due to some extremist attacks? The US tried to justify over a decade of slaughter of terrorists and innocent bystanders abroad as a reaction to one terror attack on US soil. Don't try to play word games here. None of this is actually justified. All countries are guilty of crimes. The question I am posing people to consider is this: If several 9/…

9/11 was Al Qaeda from Pakistán. The USA didn’t have a war with Pakistan over a radical terrorist group.

15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.

US response towards Saudi can best be summarized as completely indifferent.

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Post by ren01r »

ak39 wrote: post #152
fakedang wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A.) Ozil hasn't left Arsenal, he's just not played. His contract runs till next year. B.) Ozil is just a shit team player. Never attends practice, instead vacationing on Arsenal's dime. Even Arsene Wenger, one of the greatest coaches, had issues with him. C.) Ozil is also a huge fan of Erdogan, somebody who's currently sending troops to massacre Armenia, while also genociding Turkish Kurds. There is a 5 year old conf…

D) The country you didn't mention is the one I was talking about. You know which one. Very well.

Turkey?
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