'Three Body Problem’: Netflix accused of normalising persecution of Uighur Muslims

[spankmypirate]

'Three Body Problem’: Netflix defends itself after being accused of normalising persecution of Uighur Muslimshttps://t.co/29bp9gNMtU
- The Independent (@Independent) September 28, 2020
After announcing their decision to greenlight The Three Body Problem trilogy by Chinese author Liu Cixin, Netflix has come under backlash

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[slinkydinks]

Dumb & Dumber stay making great choices. Between this, dropping the GoT spinoff, Star Wars, picking up the Confederacy show... Just... *chef's kiss*

[spankmypirate]

It is TRULY staggering. Like, it's one thing to fuck up the ending of a hugely popular show. You'd think they'd try to salvage their rep after the GOT finale. But THIS is a million times worse! And doesn't one of them have a father with dodgy political connections?

[onyxrose81]

Benioff’s dad is Stephen Friedman. He was chairman of NY Federal Reserve and held several committee seats. He’s the top dog in this dastardly duo, Weiss is along for the ride.

[spankmypirate]

Ty for clarifying, I couldn't remember the details

[fernandocolunga]

This whole thing is still sf mindblowing to me. But apparently, we can't say anything's wrong because it's sinophobic.
Like these are straight up concentration camps y'all wtfffffffffffff
I thought it was bad with the refugee crisis but this takes it to a whole another level

[triviagogo29]

Criticizing the author, boycotting the book/show and criticizing China’s human right record is *not* sinophobic

The campaign against the show is though lol. I mean, there are rightful reasons to be turned off by anything involving the show/book but just a cursory look at who’s behind the campaign makes it clear it’s about sinophobia, not human rights concerns.

[fernandocolunga]

I wasn’t referring to the book. I was referring to the concentration camps. There are people on Twitter actually claiming that they’re not real and that it’s just an attempt by the west to paint China in a negative light and that if you agree with them existing that’s sinophobia.

[trancexperiment]

During an interivew in 2019, Liu said: “Would you rather that they be hacking away at bodies at train stations and schools in terrorist attacks?"

Holy shit, fuck this guy. What a horrendously disgusting statement.

[lyra_loo]

just fucking evil tbh

[pseudonygma]

Such an ignorant and xenophobic hot-take for someone who writes sci-fi.

[luminous_wings]

Absolutely disgusting, what a piece of shit!

[yurasama_love]

Netflix: Genocide is OK actually

[squirrels_oh_no]

And now China is building these "reeducation centers" in Tibet and building even more in Xinjiang. Ethnic Mongolians are protesting against China trying to eliminate the use of Mongolian in schools for ethnic Mongolian children and force them to use Mandarin. And yet nobody cares because everyone wants their cheap goods. In Xinjiang there is evidence they are forcing female Uighur prisoners to shave their heads to sell hair extensions in the US and Europe.

[spankmypirate]

Yep, one of my former students moved from Mongolia to Germany because of what's happening over there. It's fucked up.

[fernandocolunga]

The more I learn about it the worse it gets

[jeterluva]

I hear more about these atrocities on ONTD then I do on the news. The only other place I've heard about this is the John Oliver show.