The tweet itself
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1) the claim wives of people of a certain religion are only baby making machines, thus violating Twitters policy on hateful claims about a group of people based on in this case religious grounds
2) The Blatant lie and attempt to spin forced sterilisation and detention in camps as some great liberating thing for the women involved.
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“Baby-making machines”: Chinese tweet on Uighurs not against Twitter rules
Twitter bans "the dehumanization of a group of people" based on ethnicity.
arstechnica.com
Twitter has told Ars Technica that a Chinese government tweet praising China's treatment of its Uighur ethnic minority does not violate its policy against hateful conduct.
Human rights advocates have characterized China's treatment of the Uighur people in the Xinjiang region of China as a demographic genocide. Here's how the Associated Press described China's approach last summer:
The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.
The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply. Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.
So the tweet can be seen as offensive on multiple levels.Thursday's tweet from the Chinese Embassy in the United States links to an article in the China Daily, a publication of the Chinese Communist Party, that disputes these claims. The article claims that as China has eradicated "religious extremism" from the region, Uighur women have freely chosen to use birth control more, leading to a decline in birth rates in the region. It dismisses claims by "some Western scholars and politicians" that China has engaged in forced sterilizations of Uighurs.
1) the claim wives of people of a certain religion are only baby making machines, thus violating Twitters policy on hateful claims about a group of people based on in this case religious grounds
2) The Blatant lie and attempt to spin forced sterilisation and detention in camps as some great liberating thing for the women involved.