afransen
Senior Member
I just don't want to have the term genocide be reduced to meaninglessness. There is no mass extermination of Uighurs. China is trying to assimilate that population, quite brutally. But there is no mass extermination. We don't want to make actual genocides like the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide seem banal.Yeah, you're right....no gas chambers (that we know of). Makes the mass rape, slave labour, mass sterilisation, etc seem like a decent short-term economic plan. Free labour! Genius!
Come one mate......it doesn't matter that there are no gas chambers, the effect of what is going on there is the same as if there were.
The effect is not quite the same: we don't have millions of lives being snuffed out. It is bad that people are being oppressed for their cultural expression, but I don't think a Muslim being forced to eat pork is as bad as working children until they are near death and shuffling them into gas chambers.