These are damn difficult times for all of us but please don’t be a criminal, don’t give us ignorance. Educate yourself on everything that’s happening and advocate for human rights.
YOU ARE NOT SOLELY THE REGION WHERE YOU LIVE. YOU ARE ONE OF US. YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.
As a person with a following, no matter how big or small, I feel like I need to share this information on here.
There is a genocide happening, right now, and even though we love to say “never again” it continues to happen. The uyghur muslims are an ethnic group, and in China they are being “reeducated” in camps, concentration camps. They are facing horrors that we promised would never happen again, so it is time to fight against it.
Here are some pictures with ways you can help, check out the instagram @freeuyghurnow.
Beijing’s free-speech threat at Winter Olympics is the millionth reason to boycott
Beijing last week provided another reason to skip the 2022 Winter Olympics Games: a warning to competing athletes to not speak about about China’s aggression, oppression or genocidal abuses.
“Any expression that is in line with the Olympic spirit I’m sure will be protected,” Yang Shu, the Beijing Organizing Committee’s deputy director general of international relations, generously allows. But: “Any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations, are also subject to certain punishment.”
Nice to know the Chinese Communist Party’s view of “Olympic spirit,” already apparent in its treatment of its own athletes.
Yang added that “the politicization of sports is one of the things opposed by the Olympic Charter” and that “dedicated departments” would be established if any protests violated Chinese laws or the Olympic regulations.
What kinds of dedicated departments? We’ll find out when China makes something up on the spot.
And don’t expect the International Olympic Committee to stand by the athletes or free speech; it’s been too busy defending its choice of Beijing to host the games, despite its repeated atrocities.
These Olympics threaten to add a whole new competition — with the CCP racking up gold medals for fresh oppression.
