Hacker News Reader

Comment by olalonde | Hacker News Reader

FWIW, I live in China and have a couple of Uyghur friends and none of them seem upset with the CCP or concerned about what's going on in Xinjiang. And you don't need to be "under the close supervision of the PRC authorities" to visit Xinjiang; anyone can freely visit with a regular Chinese visa. So I would also take the Western reporting with a grain of salt.

View on HN

I've only caught wind of this through independent journalism on YouTube. The Hui people of China are also Muslim and you're not hearing about them being put into forced labor camps.

The west is creating hyperbole of fringe groups that were mostly active decades ago at this point, and using that narrative to economically subjugate them.

If a westerner sees a Uyghur work in a factory, the manufactured narrative leads to the assumption that the labor is forced, and this keeps these folks from finding good work and social mobility. This would then put these folks on the path to radicalisation due to this economic exclusion, and affect the social stability within the PRC.

I found this FBI whistleblower interview video [1] when I was researching CIA involvement with Xinjiang because I saw a video describing the US strategy about utilizing the Uyghur discontent for US geopolitical gains but could not decide whether this US strategy video was authentic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaitXSdjFP8

tl;dw because couldn't be bothered. OTOH long ago I came up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz on my own, and he smells like a typical tool. Especially when you take into account which universities are the preferred 'recruiting grounds' for certain TLAs, also taking into account who taught there, teaching whom, and the resulting sockpuppetry. Furthermore this whole 'reborn-again-christian' thing. Also where did he get his fluency in mandarin? Rather ridiculous, if you know where else to look.

they have a disney park there with uighurs and they are dancing. in every video.the same faces. and they have westerners with tour guides and always the same minders in the background .and butchers, who chain their tools to benches. and strange camps you can see from orbit. its totally not the same monstrous playbook han supremacist playbook as in tibet, singapore,taiwan etc. They eve have a guy who writes : its fake on HN.

If you write in a less schizophrenic manner, you’re more likely to be taken seriously.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com