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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My guy, Douglas Tottle’s central thesis wasn’t that the genocide didn’t happen, it was that it was unintentional.

My guy, every definition of genocide is predicated on intentionality. Look it up.

Also cool of you to insist that the EU somehow made Russia do this.

Cool straw man.

I bet you think Xinjiang is just suffering from “abnormally low birth rates” too.

Quite the opposite happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China#Affirmative_action_policies

In accordance with China’s affirmative action policies towards ethnic minorities, all non-Han ethnic groups were subject to different laws and were usually allowed to have two children in urban areas, and three or four in rural areas.