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> yet as Muslims they self-identify as separate from the Han culture.

By all accounts they appear to be justified in doing so.

> The Muslim community has a very us vs them mentality which is not healthy for national unity that china CCP desires.

Perhaps the CCP should find a model for national unity that Uighurs would overwhelmingly give their enthusiastic consent to.

> China has a 5000 year old culture and a majority of people experienced significant hardships and starvation in the last century.

>This Uigher generation is suffering so the future uigher can fit into the society better.

What relevance does the historical suffering of the Han? population have to do with the current, actively manufactured suffering of the Uighurs, beyond bitter vindictiveness?

> They emphasize national unity (vs individalism) in a way western people cannot even begin to understand, but belonging to such a group is not entirely bad. This Uigher generation is suffering so the future uigher can fit into the society better.

"Prepare to be assimilated; resistance is futile" "Surrender or die."

There's a reason the Borg were considered villains.

So, you're saying assimilate or die? What is this humanity or the borg collective?

Seriously, this is some black-mirror take on how society should function. Fascism doesn't even begin to cut it:

Fit in, or die. Be the same as everyone else or die. No originality allowed or die. Sounds like a lovely world you envision living in.

Replace Uigher with Jew, Chinese with German and CCP with Nazi and this comment would have fit right into 1939

It won't. The Jews in Germany weren't offer even the shitty options the Uighur have. The German state never tried to assimilate the jews. Even worse - the government sent to the camps even jews so thoroughly assimilated that it was surprise to them that they were having Jewish ancestors.

Do you not see the parallels between your words and those of the Nazi’s?

Oh no, imagine resorting to terrorism when your ethnicity and culture is systematically being erased by the second largest regime in the world.

Uighurs have been committing terrorist attacks since way before these camps have existed: 1992 Ürümqi bombings, the 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings, the 2010 Aksu bombing, the 2011 Hotan attack, 2011 Kashgar attacks, the 2014 Ürümqi attack and the 2014 Kunming attack. And bombing a shrine in Bangkok killing 20.

Home made bombs dropped in markets, driving trucks in to crowds of people, random knife attacks. Doesn't sound unfamiliar here in Europe. They're all reading from the same book.

What China is doing is pretty horrible but it's not like Xi woke up one day and decided he didn't like Uighurs.

The CCP has been colonising its western territories for decades. Your defence and denial of genocide throughout this thread is pretty vile all things considered.