Who Are The Uyghurs

A minor owner of the Golden State Warriors basketball team recently said, "Nobody cares about the Uyghurs" ("Weegers"). 

The Uyghurs are a Moslem minority group in China who are being jailed and brutally stripped of their religion and culture by the nation's leaders.

Yuval Harari, historian, has pointed out that cultural extermination goes back many years. Consider the ancient genocide at Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down. 

I resist change. The Irish teach their children the old Celtic language. Amerindian tribes in Canada attempt to revive ancient practices. The Ainu in Japan are doing the same. Ultra Orthodox Jews are attempting to replace the 6,000,000 Jews who were murdered by Hitler. 

But the overall trend is toward cultural unification. In fact, Harari points out, in some ways  we may be down to one human culture in the world already. 

If you were an alien observer in outer space, and if you checked on the Earth every 20,000 years, what you would find is fewer human cultures each time. No one will be speaking the Ainu language 20,000 years from now.

That doesn't justify what is happening to the Uyghurs. The beliefs of living people, their invented instincts, are deeply part of them as individuals. Beating the culture out of people is criminal. Cultural extermination will happen over time; it's better if it happens slowly and almost unnoticed. 

People do care about the Uyghurs. 

In the end we will be assimilated.