Cornell students from China jeer, walk out on Uyghur student who asked lawmaker about Uyghur genocid

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A group of international Chinese students from Cornell University staged a walkout and allegedly booed an Uyghur student during a public service career talk last week.

The walkout occurred after Fulbright scholar Rizwangul NurMuhammad spoke during the question-and-answer portion of a talk that was part of a weekly speaker series for the students of Cornell University's Master in Public Administration program on Thursday.

NurMuhammad asked guest speaker Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) about why the U.S. and the international community have spoken up against Russia for invading Ukraine yet remain quiet on the issue of the alleged genocide of the Uyghurs, the most persecuted ethnic minority in China.

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NurMuhammad said that her brother, Mewlan, was arrested in 2017 during the Chinese government’s crackdown on the Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The student also said that she has not been able to speak to her brother since his detention.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cornell-students-china-jeer-walk-201031044.html

[brooklynite]

1. In my youth, College was an opportunity to be exposed to ideas and voices you didn't agree with....

[nilram]

2. I would love it if Cornell would expel their collective asses.

Based on the lack of respect for their fellow classmates. Walking out disengages entirely from reasoned dialogue—if they don’t want to be there for learning, maybe they shouldn’t be there. A friend is a Cornell grad; I think I’ll ask him to write something to the administration.

[Sympthsical]

3. One key thing to remember about Chinese national students

At the more elite universities, the Chinese government often has informants/minders who watch the students (think: their social credit system). So, much of the time, there's an expectation that students A) say nothing, or B) make performative gestures in favor or defense of the motherland.

Of course, there are plenty of people in China who have been washed out in CCP propaganda who earnestly believe China is always being wronged by the West.

But it is a thing in our universities to have their students be watched. I have several Chinese friends who attended UC Berkeley and would not touch issues/gatherings/talks about China or the CCP, because they didn't want themselves or their families back home to get shit for it. All of them ended up staying in the U.S. after graduation.

One of those friends is actually fairly nationalist. He's real easy to wind up about the CCP. It doesn't take much. Criticism of his home country is an incredibly sore subject with him, so I usually avoid it. Unless he's being a brat. Then, well. I poke.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Expel

[rockfordfile]

6. I agree

A group of international Chinese students should be kicked out of our country.

[bahboo]

5. send them the fuck home....