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And you cited a website that denies the Uyghur Genocide and the Holodomor.
You're doing genocide denial.
Wow, I wonder what went on there…
Uyghurs aren't being systematically murdered at scale. There are reeducation camps, but to call it "genocide" isn't accurate. You should read the UN report.
As for the idea of an "intentional famine," this is disputed at best. In reality, there was a famine in the 1930s that didn't have any racial motivations. Nobody denies the famine's existence.
So no, I'm not doing genocide denial, and I'm correct, you want to appear morally righteous regardless of the real facts.
The UN hasn't explicitly called it genocide, but if you assume China's motivation is to reduce their population, it seems hard to argue its actions wouldn't qualify. Widespread arbitrary imprisonment and certainly forced sterilization would meet at least condition 4 of their requirement. The Genocide Convention's definition is below, emphasis mine:
You could argue they don't actually intend to reduce the Uyghur population, but it's hard to accept that a surge in the Xinjiang region's sterilization rate and the birth rate being cut in half over the course of three years are just anti-terrorism measures.