Thread by @ErkinSidick: The Uyghurs and the Deep
Seated and Sustained Racism of Han Chinese
https://twitter.com/ErkinSidick/status/1231085035018522625
Why China is treating the Uyghurs as it is doing
now, carrying out cultural genocide as well as the combination
of physical genocide and racial eradication? Most western
reporters, researchers and government officials who are
dealing with the Uyghur matters have got the answers to the
above question wrong.
There were 56 minority ethnic peoples in 1949 in China, but
now only the Uyghurs and the Tibetans left. The rest was gone. The other 54 peoples
were extinguished not because of their religions. They were
extinguished not because they were Muslims. They were
extinguished because they were non-Han Chinese.
If you are going to write about what is happening to the
Uyghurs in China now, or if you are going to make a policy
decision on China in relation with the Uyghurs, I recommend
that you first read the several articles of Kuan-Hsing CHEN (http://apcsapcs.blogspot.com/search/label/CV%28%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%EF%BC%89)
on Han racism, or the first ~20 pages of Yinghong Cheng’s
book: Discourses
of
Race and Rising China (Mapping Global Racisms).
The Uyghurs got the today’s fate not because of the Uyghurs’
threat of “terrorism, extremism and separatism” as China
claims, but because of the long-existed Han Chinese character:
Imperialization of the China-centered world. This includes
“demonizing non-Chinese Others, animalizing non-Chinese
Others, and humanizing non-Chinese Others. The last term means
‘pushing the Other through a <humanization> project
while forever maintaining a superior position in the social
hierarchy’ for the more civilized Han Chinese.” The following
photos are part of the Page 11-12 of the above book. I got
them from a Google book-review website (the link is also
included below):
Source of the book page samples:
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