Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial

Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by boreas on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:59PM (#20936185)

Somehow the scariest part was the erasure.

Articles that praised Tiyip’s achievements are now being systematically deleted from the internet. His name and legacy are being erased, even from the list of presidents of Xinjiang University. Ironically, Sheng Shicai, the Guomindang leader who ruled Xinjiang from 1933-1944, who was described as one of the most evil traitors by the Communist Party, is still listed as a president of the school from 1942-1944. Yet, there is now no trace of Tashpolat Tiyip’s name.

Almost a caricature of an authoritarian approach to dealing with an undesirable.

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by lone_haxx0r on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:05PM (#20936219)

And some people don't believe me when I tell them that 1984 is a reality in some parts of the world.

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by PavlovsCat on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:29AM (#20936567)

> Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable although its technical execution is bound to be somewhat difficult. If this map really did exist, not even memory would stand in the way of the totalitarian claim to domination; such a map might make it possible to obliterate people without any traces, as if they had never existed at all.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

Timely as ever.

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by baylearn on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:17PM (#20936275)

Seriously? (* citations needed.)

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by PakG1 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:23PM (#20936316)

How can anyone provide a citation if the person has been systematically erased from history? ;)

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by PakG1 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @01:27AM (#20936838)

So... was my joke completely not clear or are state actors not liking me? Not sure which it is...

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by adventured on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:24PM (#20936319)

That's a pretty comical and obvious reach as a statement. Did they (the West) erase Woody Allen's films and I missed it? I can't watch Roman Polanski's films? I can't listen to Michael Jackson's music? Amazon won't rent me films with Kevin Spacey in them (and authorities are going house to house confiscating the copies of his films)? Matt Lauer has been permanently erased from all YouTube videos?

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by SeanLuke on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:17PM (#20936279)

No.

This is an extraordinary bit of whataboutism, and requires extraordinary evidence. Please justify it with real, verifiable examples.

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by BubRoss on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:30PM (#20936345)

Why does every article about the Chinese government doing terrible things have someone saying 'the west is just as bad'? It not only is pure whataboutism it usually isn't even remotely true.

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Re:Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced t... by polotics on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:42AM (#20936622)

Because hacker news is visible and central enough to be of interest to all state actors.

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