Americans, do you have a news cycle dedicated to the Uyghurs in China?

I've seen it mentioned several times on the NBC Evening News in the recent past, but not in the past couple of weeks or so.

Uyghur, please. This is the United States. No substantial reporting on this unless one gets away from the mainstream outlets.

No. I need that time to read DL countless duplicate threads on Armie Hammer.

I have heard reports on "Democracy Now!" It is not an every day thing, though.

The anchors of the MSNBC evening block have discussed it at various points over the past year, but it's not a point of constant discussion or update.

'Last Week Tonight' with John Oliver did a show on the subject this past season.

I thought it was spelled Wiggers? I'm so confused now

Americans really don't care.

I've read about it in The Atlantic and NYT

And:

i do now know that Black Lives Matter, however

Yes, OP. The media here are obsessed with Xinjiang-- e.g., CNN, NY Times, Washington Post. Nearly every China-related article mentions Xinjiang. i'm not being sarcastic: it's like the entire English-speaking world is obsessed with it (e.g., BBC, ABC and 60 Minutes in Australia). Almost like there's a hidden hand behind all of the coordinated coverage.

CNN and BBC jumped on the latest horror stories from activists last week. Zero skepticism.

The activists call Xinjiang "East Turkmenistan:". Turkmenistan exists, and its culture is the same. There's no "cultural genocide" if their culture has an entire nation to itself, next door, I think. It's like making French Canadians learn English in schools in Ontario. Quebec, their homeland exists, etc.

You have to think critically when all media are stacked up on one side, with zero nuance.

There's WAY too much shit going on in the US now for Americans to give a fuck about some tribe of people they've never even heard of.

Excuse me, Miss, but with all due respect, I have problems of my own.

No. But it would make a great comedy series. We eliminate one Muslim minority a week: Rohingya, Uighur, Maute.

It's absolutely being covered nonstop; if you don't see it, you're not actually reading the paper. Go to Google News and search "China": what results? Read the articles, even if they're about business: they'll mention Xinjiang.

America and its allies are jumping on it eagerly as a way to hammer away at China (like COVID isn't enough). And because, I think, the center-left feels guilty about the Iraq War (being pro-Islam is nearly as fashionable as BLM support in polite society in America and the UK).

They (government, media, academia, military firms) want a cold war with China, and this is one bullet point to justify it.

What's a Uyghur? Sounds obscene.

Wow, OP, I was just reading an unbelievable article about this in The Epoch Times!

And 5,000 critics agree, r18! It was THE BEST article they've ever read!!!

You could be on to something, R16. Here in Canada, the Conservatives are pushing Trudeau's Liberals to declare the situation a genocide. Trudeau so far has been hesitant, and the media has been non-stop in questioning why.

The Conservatives want Trudeau to pull Canada from the 2022 Olympics, but they sure don't want to end trade with China, so I am kind of thinking that this is all just a tactic to hammer China.

At any rate, the discussion and the vote in the HoC today is pissing off the Chinese.

Anything that pisses off the CCP is probably a good thing.

Oh! This just in, the Liberals are going to abstain from voting.

The Pod Save America guys basically cum when they talk about Xinjiang: they love defending the Uyghurs because it burnishes their woke credentials.

Send a bunch of Uyghurs to live in their neighborhood r24. They'll quickly change their opinion.

What's to debate?! Concentration camps, gang rapes, cultural destruction,...

Of course China is committing genocide!

Trump is a sadist, so naturally his Maladministration of Miller, Bannon, Flynn, et al. couldn't have cared less.

President Biden has already remonstrated Xi about the Uighurs. I'm expecting actions to follow.

What actions?

Most Americans hate Muslims, so they don't care about the Uyghurs.

R24, What an absolutely bizarre comment. People defend the Uighurs simply to be considered "woke"? Do you know anything at all about the situation? Because you sound like an imbecile.

Trump, (Pompeo, actually) is the one who declared it a genocide, R26, not Biden.

The activists are bullshitters. They said China was destroying their families’ graves: turns out they offered locals modern graveyards to which they could move their relatives’ bodies (traditionally they use fallow lands), and they choose to do so.

What r28 said.

It’s the most fashionable cause right now, actually There are activists whom the media have elevated to quasi-celebrities. The media trot them out whenever they want to substantiate outlandish claims of abuse.

The bleeding-heart educated public in the West love this stuff. Its the new Tibet. Bring on the concerts and merchandising. Speaking fees for self-appointed ethnic leaders, too.

So do Canadians, especially Consevatives, R28, but they're are using the issue to hammer Trudeau.

r3 = Xi

Apologies, r3.

Meant r33 = Xi

It's a right-wing conspiracy theory.

Honestly I really don't care about them, the more the politicians and the media drum it up, the more skeptical I have become of their sobbing stories. If there is anything to be learned from past dealings with those suppressed groups like Falun cult and political dissidents from China, it is they are not innocent either.

R12 That is NOT true. First of all, there is NO country called Turkestan. You are thinking about Turkmenistan. And while Uyghur culture is similar to all other cultures in central asia, it is still its own ethnic group. In fact, in China, Uyghurs, Kazaks, Krygz are all their own ethnic group.

In just ten years, China has torn down countless Uyghur historical sights. Many are not able to get passports to leave. People are thrown into camps. Some families are forced to have Han Chinese live with them to “teach them” the right way.

Anyone who calls this anything BUT a genocide is utterly disgusting.

It looks like all the Boris’s have left the sight and have been replaced with Xiaodongs.

R39, I wrote "Turkmenistan", dummy.

Central Asian countries, esp. the "Stan" countries are a big fucking "whatever" for Americans. We don't really care what goes on there.

I have seen several reports on it yes.

Canadian news networks have covered this all day and are still on it.

R44 Let me guess, before that, it was Kremlin and Alexei Navalny, who is all but forgotten now.

No, it was Covid, vaccines, the two Canadians detained in China, Keystone pipeline, Line 5, and Trump and Biden, R45.

oh yes, you are in Canada, the cable news here was all over Navalny three weeks ago, then went all rage on Myanmar, but it looks that story is dying down too.

i could become a Turkish Men Stan from what i have seen

[quote] It’s the [bold]most fashionable cause right now[bold], actually There are activists whom the media have elevated to quasi-celebrities. The media trot them out whenever they want to substantiate outlandish claims of abuse. / The bleeding-heart educated public in the West love this stuff. Its the new Tibet. Bring on the concerts and merchandising. Speaking fees for self-appointed ethnic leaders, too.

[quote] It's absolutely being covered nonstop [...] Read the articles, even if they're about business: they'll mention Xinjiang. / [...] I think, the center-left feels guilty about the Iraq War (being [bold]pro-Islam is nearly as fashionable as BLM[/bold] support in polite society in America and the UK).

[quote] The media here are obsessed with Xinjiang-- e.g., CNN, NY Times, Washington Post. Nearly every China-related article mentions Xinjiang. i'm not being sarcastic: it's like the entire English-speaking world is obsessed with it (e.g., BBC, ABC and 60 Minutes in Australia). Almost like there's a hidden hand behind all of the coordinated coverage. / CNN and BBC jumped on the latest horror stories from activists last week. Zero skepticism.

r33 r16 r11 Exactly. Not just the English-speaking world but the West's educated, polite society as well as the usual wokes. I barely read news about China, let alone search for them. But since 2020, my ears have been bleeding hearing non-stop about Uyghurs, BLM, Islam among the liberal circles. But r47 people give zero fucks about Myanmar (I literally hear nothing from otherwise vocal people) because the fashionable cause of the past was Muslim Rohingya.

Sorry for the epic bold failure, I want to die in shame...!

R44 But Xinjiang is NOT called East Turkmenistan, you idiot. And it does not border Turkmenistan.

Stick to Weibo, you wumao. NMSL.

Weibo? I think I get that sauce when I order Chinese food.

Who really cares? No one.

R28, A more accurate observation would be: "Most Americans are completely ignorant of the Uighurs, ......"

When the Muslim nations stop selling oil to China, I will pay attention.

Uyghurs? We don't know them.

Uighurs are an easy cause like Tibetans because the West knows nothing about them. They are a perfect, innocent victim. I'm not saying that they are not being victimized by the Chinese, but that it's easy for the media to take them up. Of course politicians like talking about them. Your audiences knows nothing about them either. It's different for issues affecting Latin Americans, Africans and Middle Easterners. Westerners have preconceived notions about them all and at least a little bit of context.

When you ask the Uyghurs if they use MSG in their cooking and they say no, are they telling the truth?

I'm PRO Gay. Thanks for asking though.

Canadian news and opposition leaders still talking about this. Nearly 24/7 coverage now for the last several days.

If they mutilate genitals of either sex, there will be no discussion whatsoever.

R26: Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, declared CCP-China’s treatment of Uyghurs as ‘Genocide’

Meanwhile, President Biden dismissed it as China’s ‘different norms’

OP You must be joking.

CNN's "Breaking News" is about a golfer in a car accident.....it's the lead story for hours.

Trump lost, R63. Lost.

R65: what has Biden’s stand on CCP CHINA got to do with Trump? I am genuinely curious.

Turkestan is a big region. They have their own countries. They should move next door to Kazakhstan instead of annexing Xinjiang for another Islamic country.

Even if they were reporting on it, what am I supposed to personally do about it?

Well, OP?

In fact, what specifically are YOU doing about this crisis that is currently playing itself out somewhere in the midst of the vast Asian steppe?

Are you a radical freedom fighting guerrilla ready to take on the Chinese from inside Chinese territory?

Or are you sitting on your ass paying your taxes to support the ongoing efforts of your government to bring aside an end to this conflict through diplomatic means .... JUST LIKE THE REST OF US.

[quote] 'Last Week Tonight' with John Oliver did a show on the subject this past season.

How could that man get any snide laughter out of the subject ?

I don't care, R68. I just wanted to know if your networks are as obsessed with the story as ours. Sheesh!!

Well, nothing really happens in Canada so they can afford to do constant coverage on these people no one's ever heard of. The US is such an insane asylum we just don't have the time. Shit happens here every hour.