Xinjiang camps parallel Nazi Germany despite lacking evidence of mass deaths
Evidence
Although the distinctions between present-day Xinjiang and Nazi Germany are dramatic, particularly with regard to mass deaths and mass punishment, the parallels cannot be ignored. Over 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, moved from concentration camps into gas chambers. To date, there is little evidence of mass deaths in China, but torture and ethnic cleansing and its concomitant project of “cultural genocide” have been widely documented. Those two words I had uttered throughout the talk—“concentration camps”—had struck a chord with at least one audience member. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 547
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: The Auschwitz parallel is a provocation the reader could carry into comparative writing; also connects to how other states invoke historical trauma.
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