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18 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This needs to be explained. The Covid reasons explain foreign places: Hing Kong, Macao, Taiwan. It does not explain excluding Uyghurs (next)
Is there an outbreak in Xinjiang? Not reported. And Uyghurs are only one component of Xinjiang’s population. So Uyghurs are forbidden for a different reason.
There seems to be a blanket prohibition on Uyghurs at public and tourist sites across China. I recently heard a cab driver say that Uyghurs are not allowed to visit 3 Gorges Dam—“it’s said they cause trouble 据说他们作乱 “ was his reason.
This kind of officially driven racial discrimination has been in place since at least 2008, in the run-up to the Olympics, when hotels and housing were denied Uyghurs and Tibetans across China. Official Chinese racism is a very serious problem.

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State Dept determination, 1/19/2021, that PRC policies in Xinjiang Uyghur Region comprise genocide and crimes against humanity is important. Below, first, essentials, then I'll discuss Pompeo's lies in the statement (a thread for the record) 1/22 bit.ly/3nTi5ig
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Coordinated disruption of Brandeis webinar on Xinjiang: a thread. web.archive.org/web/2020111504…
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Some too-loose writing by @nyt @KatherineKornei about early horse riding in Xinjiang. Mistake is saying that Xinjiang in 350 BCE was "China": it wasn't politically, and it wasn't culturally. (Thread)
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Zoom is at it again. Last summer it cancelled meetings about Tiananmen and Hong Kong. Now it has cancelled university meetings about Palestine (SFSU) and meetings about the cancelation (U Hawaii Manoa) and NYU. mesana.org/advocacy/lette…
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