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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Here's what actual evidence looks like:

The Armenian Genocide

The Gaza Genocide

The Darfur Genocide

The Holocaust

Now here's the "Uyghur Genocide"

Notice that all but one of those has photographic evidence of the defining feature of a genocide, the dead bodies.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey look, evidence from countries that have a free press!

I wonder why we don't have any "evidence from China". I bet it's their state-run media censoring it.

Your point has 0 credibility, your confidence in it is utterly misplaced.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

So you love the free press of Israel, Darfur and Turkey?

I also love how people think that China has some magical censorship technology that's so effective that people can't manage to sneak out a single shred of evidence but somehow every racist has some magical means of finding the actual facts (they just can't show them to us).

Nobody can smuggle out a USB stick out of the country. None of the millions of VPN users can figure out how to send some video out of the country. None of our satellites can take a photo with any evidence. That's an amazing coincidence.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol at the way you conceptualize evidence. Also lol at the way that you don't know what genocide is.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Genocide isn't about killing.
Photos aren't evidence.

What's next?
War is peace?
Freedom is slavery?

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You didn't use photos as evidence. You used the lack of results in a Google image search as evidence. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence and a single Google image search isn't a very thorough search for evidence to begin with.

Also Genocide doesn't imply killing. There are forms of genocide that doesn't involve mass murder.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

If it’s a bad way to find evidence maybe you have a better way. If you have some evidence, I’d love to see it.

Not all killings are genocide but I’m not aware of any definition of genocide that doesn’t involve it. What definition of genocide are you using?