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Don't worry, it's definitely not genocide, China is just being a little 'authoritarian' towards the Uyghurs
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
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The meme checks out: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/population-birth-rate-by-region/cn-population-birth-rate-xinjiang . Birth rate was 1.588 in 2017 and at a similar level in the years before that, 1.069 in 2018, 0.814 in 2019 and so on.
Extra surveillance and repression reportedly started in 2014, mass incarceration in 2017.
Idk, if you educate women the fertility rate usually drops, so it stands to reason if you reeducate them it'd drop even further...
So they just built a lof of universities and accepted women free of charge. So generous! We should follow their example.
I think it was a pun, pretending to confuse education with "re-education" by implying that re-education might have similar benefits to education (like upwards economic mobility) that would result in having fewer children, instead of the detrimental reasons reeducation would actually result in lower birthrates e.g. incarceration and other stresses.
No shit
Congratulations, you understood it from the get-go. You're clearly not the target audience for the comment.
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Do you brag about passing cognitive tests, too?