Ordinary Chinese citizens broadly accept Uyghur internment as necessary for stability.

Evidence

Yusef, a twenty-three-year-old university student living in Beijing, lamented after the crackdown on the Uyghurs, “I became lonely. Fewer Uyghurs can be seen in the streets because they’re forced to learn Han culture in the camp far away in Xinjiang. Nobody has the right to decide people of which ethnicity [to] put into jail, but it’s happening and it’s frustrating and creepy that most Chinese people believe that it’s [the] right decision [in order] to keep the whole society ‘stable.’ ” Loneliness in a land with nearly 1. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 567

Categorization

• XREF: Popular consent to state persecution under a stability frame parallels public acceptance of national-security overreach in other regimes; useful comparative datum.