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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

My question aims to know what kind of procedures did the Chinese government (allegedly) take since 2014 in Xinjiang, and why to begin with. And what can we know about the region in the current time, like can a random tourist go and see with their own eyes the truth, and maybe film it ?

There are Youtube videos and a Wikipedia page documenting human rights infringements, while China and the Marxist forums deny anything harmful. Now that almost nobody is bringing it up, I want to know what was legitimately documented. Investigating the origins and later developments of the case on my own would be so hard.

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[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is a propaganda video where most of the "erie" parys are just video editing and commentary, not demonstrated through evidence or interviews. It is a good example for developing your own media criticism skills. I'll make note of one outright falsehood and invite you to critically analyze the video further.

They lied when they said those attending didn't go home. They literally show them arriving and going home on buses multiple times. Rather than note their own inconsistency in narrative, they try to characterize this as erie and scary as well. Oh people line up to get on buses! Follow that bus! Oh it just goes to a "government facility" and they leave to do whatever they want to afterwards? What government facility? They say they are "processed" first. Where is the evidence of this? All they show is people leaving while the bus they were on is stopped.

The BBC has a history of pushing this kind of bad faith propaganda. They even do things like get down into ditches to make "scary" angles for boring things and desaturate the videos like it's reality TV and you need to emotionally manipulated to know what the bad things are.

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