Interesting. I’m inclined to believe you but I’m wondering if you have sources on hand for those claims.

I didn’t realize that the Uyghur language was an official language, and I didn’t know that ethnic groups have constitutional protections in China. I think a lot of the conclusions drawn from the video ignore the context that China has legal protections for languages and ethnic groups that places like the U.S. don’t.

I didn’t realize China had so many official state languages.

Fair point. Do you know if Uyghurs in the reeducation camps are allowed to speak their native language?

I would also like to see a video

It does look very incriminating though and I would not be surprised.

Are you saying it was gross because the situation of Uyghurs in China is not as bad as the situation of indigenous people in the U.S.? The reason I chose to make the comparison I did is that the author of the video makes the same comparison, and it seemed like an example that people might have prior knowledge of or be able to relate to.

I apologize that I used things that have happened to indigenous Americans in the past to further a point when I did not fully understand their situation.

I would like to know what you felt was wrong about the comparison

I think “at the very least” was a poor choice of words on my part, and it was probably not 100% fair to compare it to things that have happened to native Americans. There were legal documents from the Chinese government that the author of the video cited that would lead me to believe that there is an attempt at the assimilation of Uyghur people into a larger Chinese culture and language

I would like to understand what is disgusting about what I said.

It seems at the very least to be an attempt at erasing an ethnic culture, comparable in some ways to Native American boarding schools in the history of the U.S. and Canada

I thought this was a good video. I’m not sure if it’s a genocide, and I’m sure it’s not on the same scale as Palestine, but I think what’s going on with Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities deserves serious criticism: https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js

Take this with a grain of salt as I have not done in depth research.

Thank you so much!

It’s helpful that you said not to emotionally invest into ideas because that pushes back on the way I have been processing political ideas. Since I’ve very active in socialist circles, I’ve emotionally invested in it a lot more than I’ve actually done research. One concept that helped me feel better about this is praxis, which from my understanding is the concept of acting in conjunction with learning. I will work on taking out some of my emotional investment, mostly if it includes absolute ideas of good and evil rather than analysis

I know right 😬😬😬 Sorry. I am thankful for the people who put in the effort to answer my question, and I am feeling encouraged to be a member of this community

Thank you. That helps a lot and you did an excellent job of explaining things and organizing your response in a way that was easy to follow

Thank you for your response. I feel embarrassed by the oppositional way that I worded my question, and grateful for the volume and quality of responses from people in this community. I am reading their comments and following links, and I will do more research on prolewiki. I am part of a socialist group where I live, and I am reading through introductory works by Marx and others at the moment.

What I really appreciate about this experience is that I was not silenced or ignored, though some degree of that would have been warranted, but rather that I was met with educated responses and open dialogue

I apologize for the way I asked my question, and I appreciate that so many of you took the time to respond. I am thoroughly reading your responses, and I will ask better questions in the future