Cultural Genocide

'Genocide' is an ugly term. One that, regrettably, applies to enormous swathes of human history. Especially colonial history. Mostly that.

My penchant for evolutionary theory (which is not, in fact, just a theory any more than quantum mechanics is just a theory), and for evolutionary psychology, means that I am not overmuch surprised that we need this term for describing certain kinds of human behaviour.

A word to the wise: philosophers of biology tend not to like evolutionary psychology. However, philosophers of biology also often pursue silly projects on the basis of significantly false premises (significant falseness is a thing that happens to scientific theories according to the philosophy of science). In the case of evolutionary psychology - which, like any science, has various interpretations and comes in different flavours and strengths - they usually pick on the easy targets - like innatist massive modularity, which theory is probably not true without some level of domain general processing going on in the brain (domain general architecture is more like multi-purpose software than baked-in, or hardwired, components or modules).

(Evolutionary psychologists who are fans of innatist massive modularity would disagree, but my current view is that they might want to let domain-general architecture do some of the cognitive functional 'moduling'. Maybe even most of it. Domain general cognitive and neural architecture is, after all, evolved by way of adaptionist mechanisms operating in an environment of evolutionary adaptedness that probably mostly happened in the Pleistocene era.)

But - I digress. In any case, evolutionary psychology (which does not, despite strawman arguments to the contrary, necessarily require the massive modularity theory of mind) also tells me why it is that if there is ambiguity or conceptual overlap to be exploited for the purposes of cool war and memetic soft warfare in general, then that is exactly what the venal propagators of misinformational memetic narratives will get to work doing.

Propagandistic Conceptions of Genocide

For a brief moment in history corresponding to around about now, the salient exploitable ambiguity and manipulability providing grist for the memetic mill of Western anti-China propagandists is all about the concepts of genocide and cultural genocide (or as certain analytic philosophers and cognitive scientists of the late 20C might write it [cultural genocide] and [genocide], but don't worry about that).

Lately, the narrative memesters of the Western propagandati have been working closely with the terminological and conceptual cool-war demons on 'genocide'. The term and concept, that is.

Propagandists have been significantly responsible for all kinds of actual genocide in the past (victims of the very real WW2 Jewish holocaust - and the Stalinist Gulags - would be inclined, I suspect, to agree), and there is a (constant) risk of it happening again. I am not sure we are there yet with the current crop of memetic narrative spinners (although this might only be due to the mitigating nature of the Internet and social media as an easy informational force multiplier for other voices and narratives).

They (the Western media-meme-ster propagandafia) are perhaps making some progress in the wrong direction. It is probably too early to call. That being said: China's atheist CCP certainly seems to be in their sights (Yes. I know that the entire CCP is not necessarily atheist, but the Western propagandati don't seem to know that, or care. Especially the many fanatical megacultist delusionals among them).

Atheist Han, in particular, seem to be in their racist and bigoted sights. Atheist Han were certainly in delusional, Bible-thumping, imaginary-god-bothering Michael Pompeo's crosshairs.

Of course, what a clearly delusional, doctrinal bigot with an imaginary omnipotent friend, little to no evidence, and, evidently, limited support from his staff, 'determines', and how they determine it, is a more than salient question (in a fever dream, perhaps?):

Largely, however, such accusations of actual genocide have proven to be not just premature and ill-considered, but sensationalist and, correspondingly, quite ignorant. Stupid, even:

Actual genocide against the Uyghur people isn't sticking as a believable allegation. Moreover, no one making the allegation seems to care at all about, or even mention, the really serious Islamist megacult terrorism that has been making life really dangerous in Xinjiang for 30 years.

Actual genocide is a hard sell, even against the much demonised, and even more maligned, CCP. So - cultural genocide it is, then, say the Western propagandati. In truth, they'd already figured out some time ago that the whole bullets-and-plague genocide allegation was not sticky enough spaghetti for writing nasty memes on the wall to get the China-haters going.

We should keep in mind, that, however ugly cultural genocide may be: cultural genocide is not the same thing as actual carpet-bombing-and-bacteria genocide. The former concept does not necessarily entail the latter, although the latter concept probably does necessarily entail the former, for obvious reasons.

Foreign Affairs at least acknowledged that the term 'genocide' might be a little shaky in terms of conceptual coherence and factual grounding:

But whatever the merits of the term, the evidence of the atrocities that China has committed against Uyghurs is undeniable. (Source: Foreign Affairs Magazine)

'Undeniable' can be an emotional term too. Any term can be thus semantically invested. Evidently.

The so-called evidence includes a media report about witness reports by the biased and somewhat bought BBC. Not a great start. Not to mention the fact that the CCP are not bombing anyone in Xinjiang, but Islamist megacultists there have bombed local Uyghurs, and the US and UK and their allies have a habit of bombing Islamic Jihadists - more or less wherever they can. There's a hell of a lot more concrete, multi-faceted, heterogeneous, independent evidence of both of those facts. However, Western propagandati insist on stirring the crowd into a frenzy about the CCP trying to stop some very nasty, bigoted religionist memes from being used to hurt and kill Chinese people.

As in Chinese humans, in case that wasn't clear.

The Atlantic played the 'cultural genocide' card:

Foreign Policy beat them to it by two years:

"It's expensive to destroy a people without killing them" said the pundits at Foreign Policy. Well - the US would know, I guess. They have tried both strategies on numerous occasions. When it comes to non-Christian religious states, it seems that they're apt to mostly deploy the "killing them" approach. Admittedly a lot of those states have been fanatical Islamic megacult states. Makes one wonder why the US doesn't have more sympathy for the approach of the CCP to Xinjiang.

Okay. That's nonsense. It doesn't make one wonder at all. It is obvious that the US' completely hypocritical lack of empathy is all about China bashing, atheist bashing (try and argue that it isn't), stopping Xi's Belt and Road initiative, and military industrial dominance. After all - the other type of state that the US has been more than happy to unleash carpet bombing on is the communist-atheist kind of state.

I guess that ASPI and its fake, fundamentalist-led 'researchers' think that if the US' military-industrial-goverbusiness complex can get people angry enough with Han Chinese atheists that they hate, then they will probably get their war for profits anyway.

One could be forgiven for thinking that Xi and friends have to be geniuses to have made it this far without getting into a hot conflict in the SCS or Tibet, and it looks like they may yet trade and befriend their way out of such problems completely. What's not to like? Unless you like to make money from selling missiles, of course. Or doing research for people who do (Vicky Xu.) (Sure, the CCP will sell missiles and tanks if you force them into an arms race with the US MIC. It's pretty clear, however, that they'd rather crank out laptops, phones, and 5G.)

Or, unless you're really sick and your imaginary friend is telling you that atheist CCP are in league with your imaginary Satanic enemy. Then, frankly, you need to be deprogrammed and psychiatrically treated in a clinical setting. What - you don't? What about your imaginary enemy and imaginary omnipotent friend? What about your grandiose delusions of moral and social authority? Come on, now. Off you go. Down to the psychiatric ward with you.

The REAL Cultural Genocide Specialists: Religious Megacultists

The pundits-pretending-to-be-researchers at LaTrobe University spinningly spun some terrific rhetorical and discursive spinformation, referring to what was happening to Uyghurs in Xinjiang as "coercive ideological remoulding." Well. So what?

If the FBI had used something like this on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, a bunch of children would probably not have been gassed and burned. Or perhaps if the Branch Davidian cultists had not been allowed to spread bigoted, idiotic, apocalyptic eschatologies as fact among their indoctrinated victims - by way of "coercive ideological moulding" - then the FBI would never have been involved (The branch Davidians were mega-cultists, really, since they were not that different from the Seventh Day Adventists that spawned them. Tell us about freedom of religion again, Pompers. Actually, Mr Pompeo: don't tell us anything. Just go and get treatment at a psychiatric ward as soon as humanly possible. Yes, I actually mean it.)

Coercive ideological remoulding of Islamic fundamentalist megacultists using psychological techniques sounds like an excellent idea, and the right idea. There should be more of it, and less carpet bombing and bunker-busting.

Right ASPI?

What about you, Pompers?

Pompers??

HEY! Pompers! Stop talking to your imaginary, omniscient friend and pay attention!

It seems clear that coercive ideological moulding may be very much the best explanation for how we ended up with clinically sick delusionals like Paula White and Michael Pompeo. Perhaps it is how the "coercive ideological (re)moulding" is used, and by whom and for what purposes, that matters? If cultural genocide can be defined in some instances as knocking infectious violence-and-bigotry-inducing memetic narratives on the head: then perhaps cultural improvement is a better term and concept to use, than 'cultural genocide', in those cases?

Megacultist and parareligionist propaganda-meme-brain-farters are not deterred, however. Avid religionist and CCP-atheist-basher James Leibold went to some trouble to outline the multifarious different ways in which genocide could be defined and attributed to the (very, assuredly and extremely, nefarious, evil, scummy) CCP's actions in Xinjiang. He tried to pretend that his attempt was scholarly-ish. It was obviously just more propagandist sophistry that involved a list of sins that the early Christian church fathers (elite memetic bullshitters if ever any lived) would have found both impressive and perplexing.

Interestingly, Leibold made no mention of vicious Islamic megacult terror attacks that had been going on for at least 30 years. None at all. In fact, in a typical show of bias and unscholarly un-objectivity, his article does not even mention fanatical Islamic-megacult terror, nor the continuous efforts of Islamic megacults to use "coercive ideological remoulding", and, if that doesn't work, machetes and vehicular homicide:

Leibold's crowning rhetorical achievement might be this lump of spaghetti splatter:

In Xinjiang today, non-Han thoughts and behaviour are pathologised as deviant and thus in need of urgent transformation.

Way to racialise your already bigoted attack on atheist communists, Leibold. Good job. That will send some hate their way. Would you rather they take a leaf out of the US' bomb-strike play book? The propagandist sleight of hand here, dear reader, is the attempt to give the impression that the CCP somehow want to make everyone Han, rather than stop vicious Islamic terror and the bigoted memetic narratives that embody it. Leibold's meme-stirring disposition and assertions can only be described as open bigotry against Han people, many of whom are religious. Moreover, simply stated, they're a lie.

So the Western propagandafia are avidly accusing China of both genocide and cultural genocide in Xinjiang province. However, it is a little hard to make assertions about the former kind stand up under any kind of serious and sensible scrutiny (and that's even if there has been a nasty rape atrocity, the evidence of which atrocity is thin and may well be fabricated, to say the least.)

So, it looks like the cultural kind of genocide is the sensationalist Western propaganda-gasm (propagandasm?) of choice (Forgive my neologism contractions, but they are apropos to the situation. Very.)

Like many others, I am still yet to be convinced that there is anything like the real bombs-and-bacteria kind of genocide going on in Xinjiang. Certain irresponsible, and - let's face it - completely delusional, memetic mouthpieces (i.e. Michael Pompeo) have assured us that it is real. Given Mr Pompeo's clearly delusional mental state, and associated epistemic irrationality, his assertions should probably be read as clear evidence against bullets-and-bastards genocide (which kind Americans know plenty about.)

More to the point, there does not seem to be anything in the way of independent, type-heterogeneous information sources backing up the claims of cultural genocide either. None at all. Just a lot of opinionated, bad interpretation of CCP reports, and a really large number of clearly clinically delusional, fundamentalist, fanatical megacultists like Leibold and Zenz apparently venting their hatred of Han atheists. The latter is the same as when such memetically infected delusionals call America the 'Great Satan' and - well - really mean it. As in imaginary-supernatural-enemy-Satan mean it.

Islamic megacultists are not well people any more than are Paula White, Scott Morrison, and Michael Pompeo. Psychological deprogramming to stop them from radicalising and doing more violent, bloodthirsty terror in Xinjiang is a far better idea than the US military-industrial-goverbusiness-complex's usual solution of shoot first, shoot second, shoot some more, and then send an invoice for the ordinance to the taxpayers while the bomb craters are still on fire.

There is a clear and statistically demonstrated correlation between so called moderate megacult commitments, and vulnerability to megacult memetic radicalisation. It has got not a little to do with the fact that the doctrines in question are not just archaic, and not a little weird, but deeply intrinsically bigoted. The radicalisation cues are built in to the doctrinal memetic narratives, and they are there for all to see.

It clearly doesn't help women, apostates, infidel, unbelievers, homosexuals, or other megacultists, that the whole theist-megacult doctrinal shooting match invariably - in the case of Abrahamic megacults - involves believers having as a delusional locus of control an imaginary patriarchal, misogynistic, gay-hating, unbelief-hating, narcissistic, attention-demanding, and essentially psychotic monster of epic proportions. It helps even less that megacultists think that this astronomical, celestial, obviously deeply sociopathic asshole (appropriate technical term) is not only real, but praiseworthy and to be obeyed. These are sick people, and there is not really another way to correctly analyse the situation.

The CCP has a duty to protect its citizens from dangerous, bigoted, violence-inducing religious, memetic narratives that will exacerbate their existing psychiatric conditions, or even induce such conditions. They take that duty seriously, and neither Western, delusional, doctrinally-bigoted megacultists, nor the military-industrial goverbusiness complex like it. Not one little bit.

Although it is far from clear that the cultural variety of genocide is in play in Xinjiang either, the BBC (Big Bluster Cooperative?) has been pushing the idea along with atrocity-porn in the form of local eyewitness reports about the rape of Uyghur female prisoners. I hope that it is not true. As also mentioned above, there's not much at all in the way of corroboration. If it does get soundly corroborated by some independent source that is not an Islamist and not a Han-hater, then we still don't really necessarily have cultural genocide. We don't even have evdience of structural abuse, unless there is more than one incident of the kind proven. We would have a horrible incident of group rape that the CCP should ensure never happens again. We don't know yet. The BBC certainly doesn't know. If it is true, it is terrible. However, it still would not constitute evidence of large-scale genocide that is being alleged, with the numbers in the high hundreds of thousands, to one million, victims.

Most of the reports regurgitated by the BBC and CNN still seem to be comprehrensively those of Islamists, and of ethnic Uyghur's who already really hate the CCP, or else hate Han Chinese, or hate them both and don't make any distinction (much like former Senator Pompeo).

Wait - is that cultural genocide, or bullets-and-bombs genocide? It's so hard to remember and keep it clear. Perhaps that is what Western fake-researcher propagandati like James Leibold want?

Don't get me wrong. If the CCP start lining people up with yellow stars on their lapels and shooting and cooking them in ovens - which is what really did happen to the Jewish population in Germany and Europe in the 1940s - then I will be the first to cry bloody murder. However, as long as the CCP are just trying to head off violent, and very real, memetic Islamism at the social pass by using "coercive ideological (re)moulding", then genocide is not what we should be talking about.

There could be cultural genocide going on in Xinjiang. However, if it is, and depending upon one's definition of cultural genocide - it is not clear who exactly is responsible, or even if there is more than one cultural genocide happening. It's not clear that there is more cultural genocide in Xinjiang than in the US, or that there is not more being carried out by the US and its allies around the globe. According to the definitions proffered by Leibold and the ASPI propagandati, isn't what the US does to ISIS also cultural genocide and actual genocide? Pretty sure it damned well is. Obviously I agree that ISIS should be eliminated as a movement and as a going set of memetic narratives. I'm just saying, as the Millenials put it in social media.

Frankly, if cultural genocide just means pscyhologically treating dangerous (socially, diplomatically, and geopolitically), and clearly very sick, delusionals like Paula White and Michael Pompeo - then one should be all for it. I am. They are dangerous for foreign and domestic policy, and deeply geopolitically and geostrategically dangerous, just like anyone 'guided' by an imaginary friend and accompanying grandiose delusions of moral and political authority:

(If White and her ilk is what freedom of religion gets you, then it is seriously overrated. Let's keep in mind what it really is: freedom of religious bigotry. Deeply programmed, atavistic, xenophobic, misogynist, patriarchalist, tribalist, arcane, and archaic doctrinal bigotry.)

The Western media have diligently ignored the Chinese government's coverage of terror in Xinjiang and Yunnan. There's enormous, multifacted, multi-sourced, heterogeneous, live recorded video evidence for the copious terrorist violence meted out against the citizenry of China by Islamic fundamentalists in Xinjiang, Yunnan, and several other provinces:

It is clear that the CCP were determined to stamp out this megacult-memetic trend of violence and insurgency: without using any bombs at all. Well done, good show, and congratulations to them. The New York Times complained along with others, but neglected to say much about the contrast between - say - the reeducation camps of the CCP in Xinjiang and the US' usual approach to Islamic terrorists in foreign states. Or the FBI's solution to the problem of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, for that matter.

I am pretty sure acts of terror involving murder with bombs, cars, and machetes are an unambiguous and old-fashioned attempt at getting started on all of the kinds of genocide - including the killy, cultural, and structural varieties. However, let's not let the facts get in the way of the memetic narratives of the Leibolds and BBCs of the world.

A Narrative That Never Fitted

It is hard to deny that the state media outlets of the CCP (Global Times and China Daily etc.) are, well, state media. That being said - they also have a lot of fairly candid looking video evidence of a whole lot of happily Uyghur culture going on in Xinjiang. It seems to be going on strong.

They've also got significant, balanced video evidence that media outlets like the BBC and CNN are actively sensationalising, and outright misrepresenting, facts on the ground.

There is also a lot of local amateur and semi-professional reportage on social media from Uyghur people on the ground (Weibo and Twitter both). Teachers, shopkeepers, students, and a swathe of other Uyghur folk who all seem not a little annoyed at the assertions of the Western media that their province has turned into some kind of humanitarian and cultural black spot, or black hole, or dark stain, or whatever. There is some sound evidence that a lot of this local reportage is being blocked by Western social media outlets.

(Not all of it, however. Although: it does seem that small, or individual, sources in China itself are more likely to be blocked than those supported directly by groups like Qiao Collective. Small, independent, local Chinese sources are very important to balancing the entire narrative.)

Additionally, there are more than a few Western commentators on the ground in China, some of whom are well trained in political science or political psychology, and have been in striking distance of Xinjiang and its regional population centres. They're saying no to the allegations of genocide and cultural genocide (with allowances for how the latter is defined.) (Many of them are not nearly as serious about religious memetics as I am, but I am ideologically source-flexible for the sake of accuracy. )

Moreover, cultural genocide doesn't really seem to be embodied in the modus operandi of the Chinese CCP. The 中国共产党 （zhong-guo gonchandang, or Chinese Communist Party) certainly do knock down a few illicit mosques. They certainly do limit the activities and infrastructure of Christian megacultists. All of what I refer to as megacults are on notice in China: keep it small, take it very easy, and go slow. China's CCP do not want a theocracy - defacto or otherwise. Carrie Lam is apparently Catholic, and the Dalai Llama has not been arrested. That's about top gear as far as religionism goes with the CCP. Suits me fine, to be honest. My predilections aside: it is clearly not the stuff of cultural genocide. It is certainly not structural genocide.

Also important to balancing the entire Xinjiang narrative in acknowledging the many well-preserved and well-protected local tribal cultures across China, many of which have significant religious commitments. They include the well-respected matriarchal and matrilineal Musuo of Lugu Lake in Yunnan pronvince. The Musuo hold to a form of Hinduistic animism syncretised with additional, local, tribal religious elements. Yunnan is a province where Islamist fundamentalist megacultists have wrought serious acts of terror in the last two decades (I have been to Lugu Lake and met the Musuo. They're inspiring people.)

Carrie Lam and the Dalai Lama. Plus the religious Musuo tribespeople of Lugu Lake. Plus quite a lot of functioning Buddhist and Daoist temples. Plus - genocide of Uyghurs? Something doesn't fit. I suggest that what doesn't fit is the political and ideological China-as-threat narratives of the Western, Pompeoan, megacultist propagandafia.

Megacults like Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism are overrated. In fact I suggest they're just undesirable. (I am sure that the rest of the Western world will catch on eventually.) In the meantime, China's CCP has a serious terrorist extremeist problem to deal with in Xinjiang. The most part of that problem is very real extremist, religious, memetic narratives: not some kind of cooked up Han supremacism. The CCP appear very much to be trying to stop the cultural genocide of the Uyghur people by Islamist megacult extremists who have wrought significant violence upon the locals over three decades.

Of course the Western religionist propagandati cannot let that get in the way of a good China-threat narrative. Particularly not in their own delusional perception and cognition, apparently.

What is fairly clear - indubitable in fact - is that militant Islamic megacultists have been giving both bombs-and-machetes type genocide, as well as cultural genocide, a damned good go in Xinjiang for at least three decades. They haven't let limited resources and numbers stop them, although such limitations probably prevent structural genocide. Such are the nature of the doctrinal bigotries of megacult memetic narratives.

The CCP appears to want to stop Xinjiang descending into the kind of hotbed of cultural, structural, and actual genocide that goes on in Islamic-megacult jihadist caliphates. The Western media, and ASPI, don't seem to like this for some reason. Who knew? Maybe it is because the Chinese are not carpet bombing, drone-striking, and bunker-busting the Xinjiang terrorists. I guess it doesn't profit ASPIs military industrial sponsors much to go that way.

A tale of three kinds of genocide: Western hypocrisy writ (Historically) Large

In Australia, the United States, and pretty much every colony that Great Britain, The Netherlands, Germany, France, and every other European colonising naval and economic power ever smashed into the unsuspecting faces of First Nations peoples: there is a long history of what scholars have called structural genocide. Of course, the structural genocide is usually a tool deployed after more overt bullets-and-smallpox genocide has already done its - well - genocidal damage.

Everything that First Nations peoples are suffers from both kinds of genocide. Their communal health, life, peace, infrastructure, lifestyle, society, and culture. Sure, there is plenty of trouble and suffering in any given human society, including those of First Nations people. However, there is always plenty more after colonisation, or should I say - after systematic, slaughtery genocide followed by structural genocide.

Normatively speaking, I should be preaching to the normative choir. Unfortunately, of course, after the genocide has been done, things return (?) to a new normal with the new psycho-skydaddy presiding imperiously and gloriously over all the stolen stuff, and the few First Nations people that didn't die from - well - actual genocide. It is evolved human nature, unfortunately. Evolutionary psychology is all over it in terms of inference to the best explanation (AKA abduction), and the best explanation in general. Really. (Evolutionary psychology AND informational cognitive psychology, actually.)

Although, in cases of colonisation and the asssociated various implementations of all three kinds of genocide, the local colonised First Nations folk do get the incredible honour of being offered a new, murderous, patriarchal, misogynistic, unhinged, weird, angry (pretty much psychotic and unbalanced, really) imaginary god friend (say thank you, slaves!) That has to be one positive thing, surely!

For the religionist and theist enthusiasts and other delusionals accidentally reading this: yes - that is deeply, resoundingly sarcastic. (Yes - I know. None of those folk are reading this. Not too many of them can read above basic doctrine level.)

In historical terms, the propagation of megacultist religious narratives probably provides the best very real examples of cultural genocide. The elimination of culture by a religionist and para-religionist colonising culture. Megacultists are good at this. It has been part of the brutalising transactional nature of their cultural capital for millenia (in most cases.)

Of course, as we're remembering: as real as structural and cutural genocide may be, they are not the same thing as actual genocide. Moreover, most examples of both in history are religiously facilitated, and religiously justified, if not overtly religiously motivated. Megacult delusions are the flag that is waved, the 'moral' peg in the ground, and - in the case of effective theistic monarchies like Great Britain and para-religionist megacult strongholds like the US: the whole idea. Thus, when Catholic Joe Biden refers to genocide as a cultural norm, and Reaganist, religionist brink tank The Centre for Security Policy conceptually and narratologically collapses this to a reference to China's CCP, the irony is not lost on the atheists and irreligionists among us (including the human beings of the CCP).

If there is anything that earns the label of 'cultural genocide', the imposition of megacultist bigot doctrines is definitely it. The imposing of abjectly bigoted and bizarre religious, and religionist, (and para-religious, and meta-religious) memetic narratives upon a colonised culture - usually as barely optional - is an infamous and historically common habit of bigoted religious institutions like the big megacults (the Abrahamic European megacults more than their Asian competitors.)

All that being said, keep in mind that our point is that cultural genocide is not the same thing as structural genocide, and not like real bullets-and-bacteria genocide at all. Not that I think real cultural genocide (whatever that does entail, exactly) is a good thing. It probably isn't somehow, and in lots of ways I haven't thought of (although none of those ways probably have anything to do with the biased, racist, Han-bashing waffle of James Leibold).

However, if in some weird possible world I was forced to choose between the three kinds of genocide (there may be more kinds, but I have enough to deal with right now): then hand me my pink hat and prayer beads. Or, let me assume the position while wearing funny hats. Or whatever. Yes, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but at least I am not being murdered, or forced to endure structural abuse that prevents me from being happy, prospering, or making progress of any kind at all. Sure - I don't want to say the chants, believe in your imaginary friend, or wear the funny hat (well - maybe the hat.) However, I am not being killed or structurally genocidally abused. Just saying (thank you, Millenials). Maybe the Freedom From Religion Foundation are really on to something. I think they must be.

Of course sometimes there is overlap between genocide types. We've already said that. For example, I am pretty sure that in Australia, or the US, or most other colonial situations: if you were a First Nations person then the only way out of the structural genocide was to submit to the cultural genocide qua imaginary friends and funny hats and stuff. So - you know - I guess cultural genocide of that kind is undesirable under those circumstances. Those are the circumstances that the CCP is clearly trying to prevent in Xinjiang.

Religionised Western colonisalism, of the kind that was used to smash the faces of Chinese people in the Opium Wars, is a well known example of the the kind of genuine kinds of genocide we are talking about. The sensationalist handwaving spouted by the Western meme-ster propagandati about China and the #CCP being responsible for cultural genocide in Xinjiang is, in comparison, a reach. It is more than reaching. It is evidently fake-news combined with delusional moral preaching.

Far more relevant and serious, despite cultural and political aporia that tend to make it invisible in plain sight, are the moronic and delusional premises, demands, and cultural idiocies of Western megacultists like Scott Morrison and Michael Pompeo. These cause the real problems. Unless of course one is somehow dull enough to think that psychology and political psychology (and US media) do not tell us that megacult memetic narratives are the lever steering domestic policy in the US and Commonwealth. Pompeo was not an anomaly. He was the embodiment of the disease. There is cultural genocide of different kinds, and religionist fake-researcher Leibold's "coercive ideological remoulding" going on in many places. Zenz is certainly trying to use it against the CCP and atheist Han.

At least in Xinjiang it is being deployed to stop Islamic terrorists murdering Chinese citizens. That's a very real problem that the US and her allies, and the military industrial businesses that fund ASPI, generally use expensive bombs to solve.