If so, was it polled somewhere?

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        It isn’t the government, and the sources cited within are very good. Would you only accept China or Russia’s word for it? Or are western sources okay?

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          The sources cited are in large part Adrian Zenz and articles citing zenz. Radio free Asia shows up as well. How are these good sources?
          Not to mention that Wikipedia is known to have a huge right wing bias and a well-known Nazi problem

          I don’t trust Chinese or Russian media either, I employ a healthy level of scepticism towards any media.

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            Is there any way I can convince you China is sterilizing and reeducating massive numbers of people in interment camps against their will? It seems like you’ve just said everything is untrustworthy.

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              Yes. If you can interact with and debunk the sources I’ve provided you and if you can provide first-hand sources such as official government papers detailing the CPCs sterilisation plans for Uyghur women, detailing how they plan to forcibly sterilize Uyghur women in order to eradicate their population.
              This would be comical, since the Uyghurs are one of the fastest growing populations in china. So somehow they would both be performing sterilisations and still having the population grow. Someone must’ve messed up.

              Now is there any way I can convince you to interact with the sources provided.

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                official government papers

                What government? It seems like the website you cited disregarded sources because they were from governments. Do you need Chinese government documents specifically?

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                  Yes. Just as I would need us government papers if I were to prove the us government is deliberately committing a genocide. Now what can I do to make you interact with the sources?

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                    No problem buddy, let just quickly break into that one chinese government archive where they got all their nasty stuff, should be easy ;^)

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              China is sterilizing

              I want you to think critically about this one. What people point to is an uptick in IUD insertions.

              We have seen what sterilization compaigns in other countries look like, such as forced hysterectomies in the US and chemical castration in Israel. IUDs are birth control, they don’t sterilize the patient. An appropriately-trained doctor can safely remove one in just a few minutes and I don’t think you even need equipment to do so!

              Literally even if we were imagining China was forcing women to get IUDs, which it isn’t, that’s not sterilizing them! Those women would not be sterilized!

              But this is part of the endless layers of warping and misrepresentation that make things go from “uptick in IUD insertions”

              to Zenz exaggerating the rate by a literal order of magnitude

              to hack journalists doing circular citations of Associated Press, etc. making sinister insinuations

              to people who don’t follow this very closely saying “sterilizing”

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                  Oh, I agree that in a vacuum that would be the more important thing, but I forgot to return to my first point: Given that this would be an extraordinarily poor way of doing forced sterilization and we know that from the many campaigns that we have decent documentation of, in the absence of solid evidence, concluding that this was “a forced sterilization campaign” does not seem reasonable. Like, in terms of everything from resilience to material waste, even just doing tube tyings (which effectively result in genuine sterilization in 1/4 of cases) would be much more effective. It’s like saying they are trying to kill Uyghurs by promoting juggling in the hopes that they will bonk themselves in the head and stumble into traffic, it just isn’t what such campaigns have ever looked like in practice.