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Exactly, which is similar to what the UN says about the US detaining African Americans.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2016/01/statement-media-united-nations-working-group-experts-people-african-descent
https://legal.un.org/ilc/sessions/71/pdfs/english/cah_wg_epad.pdf
NOT that China is genociding the Uyghurs.
Now, I'm expecting one of two responses,
WHATABOUTISM RAWR RAWR that we should ignore US crimes because China bad.
Dismissals that China totally arrests more even though we have no data on that.
That said, I do apologize for not making that clear in my original statement. I wasn't trying to say that the UN found no problems at all, only that the problems it found isn't special or unique, but most importantly that it does not constitute genocide that the US is insisting is happening.
Why do people always assume I can't be appalled by China and the states simultaneously? It's not one or the other.
Maybe because people assume I'm American (my username is partially because of Canada) . But even so, I freely admit my country of Canada was actively built upon genocide. And given the amount of missing and murdered indigenous women it's still going on at least passively.
I guess it also depends on what you consider a "genocide". I don't see how what China's doing is any different from what Canada's done.
Well for one there's no evidence of murder. That's actually my whole point. For all the complaining, the people who actually visited, the UN and Muslim nations have not seen any evidence of killing.