The minutes also show some members thought that reports of abuse of Uyghurs by the Communist Party in China's far-western Xinjiang region had been exaggerated and were part of a "propaganda campaign" by U.S. media.
What gets me, and this is a grim thing to point out so I apologise in advance, is that we know what a genocide looks like in this day and age. The supposed Uyghur genocide has an alleged death toll multiple times that of Gaza. Everyone has a camera in their pocket pretty much at all times. No one has taken and smuggled out photos of the mass graves, the executions, the death camps? Also, Xinjiang shares a border with muslim-majority Kazakhstan, which also has a sizeable Uyghur population. But there don't appear to be refugee camps there? About half of Xinjiang's population - ~12 million people - are Uyghur. No mass refugee movement? No organised resistance movement? Why not? Are we to believe that Chinese Uyghurs just go quietly along with their own genocide?! Because that seems blindingly racist to me. How do people take this seriously!
Uyghur terrorism in Xinjiang didn't come out of nowhere. Obviously the CPC mismanaged the situation in the past, as they admit, which obviously blew back on them and ultimately necessitated the crackdown. I'm sure, also, that some horrible things happened during the crackdown, as that's just the nature of large-scale policing efforts. But the idea that there is some large scale, genocidal campaign in Xinjiang is just so wholly lacking in evidence, it's kind of striking. How do you take this seriously when at one point the official propaganda line was that Uyghurs were being "forced" to celebrate Eid?
They say that the weed grown in the USSR under Stalin was some of the most potent ever known to man. Under the guidance of Trofim Lysenko, Stalin assembled a crack team of growers whose marijuana was known for its intense body high and clarifying mental effects. In his personal diaries, Nikolai Bukharin writes, “Joseph [Stalin] came to me one night as I was struggling to finish the final edit of an issue of Pravda. He handed me an ounce of marijuana that reeked of skunk. The smell alone was enough to make me tremble. ‘This is a gift from Lysenko and I’ he said, and left almost immediately. I smoked that weed and I was never the same.”
I wonder if this particular piece of laughable propaganda being deployed against Europe will make people more aware of what's going on when it's deployed against China.
Yes, if. She is not, though. If that happens and people start saying it's her fault, that would be victim blaming. Saying that she contributed to rising misogyny for her own benefit outside that context is not victim blaming because she isn't a victim.
So sassy, I love it. It's always fun when big serious figures do this. Of course I also love the famous "Trotsky has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it, nor reply."
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