Does anyone have a method of deprogramming liberals who believe in the Uyghur genocide? I have a new friend who is good on Palestine but awful on Xinjiang. Very AP-brained and trusting of western propaganda. He’s well-read and is open to having his ideas challenged, so looking for something well-sourced or he’d probably disregard it. I found a debunking video that came out right after the original Zenz “report” that references a 51-page leaked document released by Zenz. It goes through 6 points and shows how Zenz’s own documents contradicts his claims of human rights abuses. The issue is that it’s from a small creator and I can’t find the referenced document, so I can’t point him directly to the facts and bypass the youtube video, which would likely be seen as insufficient.

This is part 1 of the debunk:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ceb2B5oql8A

  • SuperZutsuki [they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    4 months ago

    This was my immediate rebuttal. Israel, with all the power of the US and other Western capitalist regimes couldn’t keep evidence of genocide from flooding the internet. He said something about some video of forced labor camps and I mentioned Zenz and his lack of credibility. He didn’t know of Zenz and said he’d look into it. I’ll get into it more the next time we talk or over text tomorrow. It was a brief interaction before I had to move on to other obligations and I couldn’t put a ton of time into it. I completely agree that the smoking gun is that there aren’t thousands of videos of evidence like we have of what’s happening in Gaza. If he tries to pull the “China has complete control over their internet” thing I’m just going to have to drill him on how that’s literally impossible.