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This reads like "I won't accept racism towards black people or towards white people, because they're totally the same". You're taking completely incomparable historical events and putting them all together under the broad category of "genocide" to further your narrative. There IS an ongoing genocide of Palestinians, there ISN'T an ongoing genocide of Russians, Ukrainians or Uyghur. Denying false claims of genocide doesn't amount to advocating genocide. I'm against the genocide of Russians, Ukrainians and Uyghurs, but those things aren't happening so why even talk about that?
There IS very much an ongoing genocide against the Uyghur and the Russian statements of Ukraine not existing as a separate country, people, or identity is very much genocide-adjacent.
There have been multiple posts I've removed going the other way speaking of the Russians "well, just kill them all" etc. Yeah, not a valid statement in any direction.
A statement isn't a genocide, and there isn't an Uyghur genocide. Wikipedia had to change the article title from "Uyghur genocide" to "persecution of Uyghur in China" because there's simply no evidence to support the "genocide" thesis.
To see footage of what a genocide looks like, open up YouTube or tiktok and look at today's bombings of Gaza. You simply won't find video footage of violence against Uyghur because there's not such a thing. Everyone in China has access to a smartphone and if there was remotely any violence taking place, you'd have it plastered all over western media. The "Uyghur genocide" was manufactured by a Christian radical and co-founder of the Victims of Communism Memorial Association called Adrian Zenz, and he did so in collaboration with the US state propaganda "media" Radio Free Asia. I dare you to find any post-2022 evidence from a primary source of any systematic violations of human rights against Uyghur people.
By calling everything a genocide, we diminish the actual significance of occurring genocides, such as the Gaza and Rohingya ones that you mentioned. I beg you to please get informed on the subject of Uyghur. I dont deny that there likely happened some human right violations such as forced education of thousands of Uyghur, but that happened during a very brief span of time already half a decade ago, and it stopped, and it doesn't really fit under the definition of genocide at all. Black people in the USA face TODAY much higher numbers of mass imprisonment (up to 1/4 of black males in the US above the age of 30 have been through the prison system) and I don't see anyone calling that genocide.
A statement that indicates they do no believe Ukraine is a separate entity or people with an inherent right to exist.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine-fact-checking-the-kremlins-version-of-ukrainian-history/
Kind of like when Trump says Canada should have always been part of the United States, it's an absolutely insane statement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-quest-conquer-canada-confusing-everyone-rcna195657
It's an insane and racist statement (the one about Ukraine). That doesn't make it genocide, though. I'm not denying that many Russian nationalists wish the disappearance of Ukraine. Then again, lemmitors wish the disappearance of russia, US and European conservatives the disappearance of the entire Arab world... Racism sucks ass, but conservatives everywhere are racist pieces of shit