Let’s say better late than never.

  • Taalnazi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Good, but add Armenian and Gaza genocide denial to the list too. Or make it genocide denial in general.

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      According to the bill, denial of the Holocaust or other serious international crimes, such as those defined under the statutes of the International Criminal Court, would be punishable by a fine or a prison sentence of up to two years.

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      Armenian and Gaza is fully confirmed, but human rights violations of Xinjiang not so much, it’s semantics at that much, like calling the modern Turkish state genocidal for destroying the culture of Kurds in northern Syria, when it was not explicitly to destroy the people itself

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        Its forced assimulation just like what the US did to the natives of America. If what the US did was genocide (it is), then what PRC is doing to Xinjiang and Tibet is also genocide.

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          18 hours ago

          I’d swear that there is a message group specifically for .ml users to jump in whenever any criticism is leveled at China.

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          Fair enough, but the term genocide is far too inclusive, I’ve heard people use cultural genocide instead.

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          No, “cultural genocide” is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition:

          … any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

          (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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          23 hours ago

          The difference is that the US did actual genocide against the natives of America