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Look I know I was trying to build up to a gotcha but this is all you. Nobody forced you to admit you don't even know where Uyghers live. You made yourself look stupider than I ever could. I was just going to post a 40 minute travel vlog of the region showing off all its Uygher people and culture, but you proudly announced your complete ignorance.
No. I don't know the name of where they live.
You're so painfully ignorant you didnt even bother to learn your anti china talking points properly. You operate on a surface level understanding of a flawed and imperialist narrative. And you have the gall to say we're an echo chamber.
I want you to take that admission of ignorance and keep going with it. Not to us, just admitting to yourself what you really do and don't know. Do you know what an Uygher looks like? What their language or culture are like? Where they live, inside and outside of china? What do you know about china more generally? What have you been told about China, and what do you actually know? What have you seen, what have you been told you've seen, and what haven't you seen?
I'm not telling you you have to believe China is a perfect utopia, I'm just telling you not to believe everything you hear or read about it. The West very publicly considers China and enemy, so every claim it makes about China should be met with scepticism. Have you read the sources provided for the claims made about it? Have you looked at the individuals and organisations that created those sources? You have to read the whole corpus of information to build the real picture.