re: #176 Alouette

Uighurs rioted and killed a whole bunch of Han, so isn’t it “whitewashing” to call that something which is “happening to the Uighurs”? The Han are the ones who had it “happen” to them.

Their culture is getting wiped out by the Chinese government. Han immigration is strongly supported in an effort to change the demographics of the region, the best jobs and government positions go to the Han, the Uighur language is under assault, and they are prohibited from practicing their religion. It’s the same form of ethnic cleansing that Turkey is practicing against the Kurds and when some react violently they are branded as terrorists. What we know of what is happening there comes from who? The Chinese government. Here is a different take. I don’t know who started killing who but I do know that what the Chinese are attempting to do to the Uighur people is wrong and if was happening to me I would probably fight back. Peaceful demonstrations like Gandhi and Martin Luther King used to promote change don’t really work on totalitarian societies.