That's not what they're doing. They're specifically targeting radicalized individuals for reeducation, and offering free Mandarin lessons and vocational skills. They are addressing the root material cause of unrest by providing them with the skills they will need for the coming boom in the area from the Belt and Road Project. They don't want the Uyghurs to be left behind economically and end up more radicalized. The idea that they're having their language erased is ridiculous. Plenty of cultures are largely bilingual.
There are actually a lot of videos of western leftists going to Xinjiang and walking around. It's a beautiful place and if the concentration/re-educcation camps were anywhere near the scale that's being reported those places wouldn't look the way they do.
The BBC even has a video where they went in one and it just looks like a pretty standard community college with mid quality dorm housing attached. They try and say the dorms are terrible, but I paid $16,000/year to live in dorms half the size with no A/C and one shower for 8 people so...?
Most of the signage is bi lingual and there's plenty of people walking around with hijabs (just no face covering). There are a couple videos of CCP loudspeakers being used for call to prayer as well. Which seems like a weird choice for a government that's doing ethnic cleansing.
That's not what they're doing. They're specifically targeting radicalized individuals for reeducation, and offering free Mandarin lessons and vocational skills. They are addressing the root material cause of unrest by providing them with the skills they will need for the coming boom in the area from the Belt and Road Project. They don't want the Uyghurs to be left behind economically and end up more radicalized. The idea that they're having their language erased is ridiculous. Plenty of cultures are largely bilingual.
There are actually a lot of videos of western leftists going to Xinjiang and walking around. It's a beautiful place and if the concentration/re-educcation camps were anywhere near the scale that's being reported those places wouldn't look the way they do.
The BBC even has a video where they went in one and it just looks like a pretty standard community college with mid quality dorm housing attached. They try and say the dorms are terrible, but I paid $16,000/year to live in dorms half the size with no A/C and one shower for 8 people so...?
Most of the signage is bi lingual and there's plenty of people walking around with hijabs (just no face covering). There are a couple videos of CCP loudspeakers being used for call to prayer as well. Which seems like a weird choice for a government that's doing ethnic cleansing.