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They’re from Portland, Oregon you can’t make this shit up lol.

The Chinese text in the title translates as “brainwashed.” Top kek.

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[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 55 points 8 months ago (5 children)

That's one thing I wish would die with reddit, the demand for scholarly sources. I got into too many arguments about racism that ended in request for scholarly articles. Not everything is studied dipshits, people aren't making peer reviewed articles for fun, it needs funding and resources. Xinjiang is a real place, like China, you can really just go there.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 47 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you don't give me a citation showing that Xinjiang is both real AND a place you can go to right now I'm not gonna believe you AND you will look like a fool

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually my eyes haven't been peer reviewed so even if I physically go there and see the "concentration camps" discovered via satellite imagery and see they're just an apartment complex, I still can't trust my own epistemology

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

And maps or flight tickets aren't peer reviewed so they don't count

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Xinjiang is a real place

uhhhhhh source?

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

Yakub is WHITE but the cultural marxists will tell you otherwise

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You'd think trying and failing to use science to justify racism would debunk any need to cite experts when saying racism is bad.

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That would require a having a chain of thoughts linking history to the present. But what happened in the past doesn't matter anymore because racism was voted illegal now

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

True. It's a "big ask" as the kids say. Or I assume how the kids say.

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Xinjiang is a real place, like China, you can really just go there.

These cracker believe sincerely that China, like North Korea, is ready to put on an elaborate stage show for any whitey that shows up. If they even acknowledge that yes you can go to Xinjiang, they'll just say that Xi Jinping personally forced everyone to be an actor and pretend everything is fine

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

Secretly all countries are ran by acting troupes to appease the American's imagination

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Proving extraordinary claims is good actually its just that "Uighers are being genocided" IS the extraordinary claim.

Sorry like I just got in an argument with a chud acquittance of mine who claimed that NGOs funded by rich people are funding mass immigration to the US, and when I asked for sources and a paper trail he said "1+1=2" and I pointed out how mathematicians would say you actually do have to prove 1+1=2 and he did a "LOL EXPERTS" thing.

So I don't think we should move into post-truthism.

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

Yes proving things is good actually. The bad is only demanding proof from 1 channel, in this case a scholarly source or it doesn't exist.