irade kashgary

HRF Freedom Fellow | Uyghur Language Program Director | Everyday gal doing everyday things

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

Ironic this is on #tiktok... but if you haven’t seen this, watch now! Make a fuss, let’s make this a #headline! #UyghurGenocide #OpenYourEyes #SpeakUp

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: During a House Armed Services Committee hearing today, Congressman Matt Gaetz cited "China's Global Times," a well-known Chinese propaganda outlet run by the Chinese Communist Party. He then actually entered this propaganda into the Congressional record.

This is exactly the influence that China wants!

Gaetz was then embarrassed by Defense Under Secretary for Policy Colin Kahl who responded, "As a general matter, I don't take Beijing's propaganda at face value."

What a moron!

[Boston Uyghur Association @BostonUyghur]

Happy International Mother Language Day!
Boston Uyghur School students are also featured on this video.

[Rushan Abbas @RushanAbbas]

#Uyghurs in the diaspora are trying their best to preserve the Uyghur culture and language.

We need help & support from the international community to preserve the Uyghur identity.

#InternationalMotherLanguageDay

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

Happy #InternationalMotherLanguageDay from Uyghur Schools around America! So glad to be apart of this amazing community trying to keep the Uyghur language alive!

Watch full video here: https://t.co/Uw7hP63gp4

@UN @UNESCO @UyghurAcademyUS

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@JohnathanPerk https://t.co/Ze2wkCCdRR

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@JohnathanPerk Take knocked up. Since the 1500s, “to knock” a woman has meant to have sex with her, and the same word has been used to suggest a man is going to “knock a child out of her.” Many slang words for sex boil down to a man assailing a woman (bang, hammer, tear off a piece, etc.)

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@LeighanneGj @Belindiam @GayLaVie I wouldn’t say generous lol maybe a normal decent human for paying for something you’ve taken from someone, who clearly was clearly selling those items in the first place. It’s like going to a garage sale, taking the item then saying oh I never agreed to pay for this??? Like wut

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@Theholisticpsyc @readwise save thread

[Leonardo DiCaprio @LeoDiCaprio]

The past two decades have seen China build its deep-sea fishing fleet into the thousands, resulting in China depleting its own stock of fish in oceans closest to them. In turn, their fishermen have sailed to other oceans across the world to continue deep-sea fishing.

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost Just saying we’ve seen equally horrific stuff & it’s not just white societies-yet they are always headlined - & it takes away from current atrocities. Like I get there’s British imperialism trauma/consequences but why can’t we headline about present day slavery instead?

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost And I don’t mean to come off like white societies are great. They aren’t. But they aren’t particularly worse either. They just have had more visibility & access in their actions.

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost That’s bc white societies have had more access. Japan was just as brutal as China at the peak of their power. Other countries just didn’t have enough power. Saudi is absolutely horrific & if they could expand their terror, they would. Scale is more due to access rather than race.

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost & I’m saying there was history before the CCP & western exploitation that indicates ppl everywhere are just as bad if not worse- it just matters who has more access & who is the center of attention. Hitler is demonized everywhere, Mao is celebrated. Guess who killed more ppl?

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost We’ll you said it seems it white ppl who are particularly brutal to those that don’t look like them… and im saying that’s wrong. I’m also saying just bc countries in Asia have not been able to go farther than Asia… doesn’t mean they haven’t been equally if not even more brutal.

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost Yes but it has also existed way before western influence in the region. We were first colonized during the Qing dynasty, and that was when a lot of nations and ppls were destroyed and consumed into what is now “China”. These issues existed long before European influence.

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost & most of Asia, although white ppl have continually grouped us as one, have a lot of racism, especially China & Japan who’s policies are ethnocentric & they openly claim their racial superiority to other races. If you go to either country - they will openly discriminate.

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost Well you said the genocide of Uyghurs were due to influence of European colonialism - that’s false. Then you mention white ppl being particularly brutal to those that don’t look like them & actually the reason Uyghurs are particularly targeted is because we don’t look Han Chinese

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost Ah yes - there’s a whole ass fucking genocide happening to my people after imperialism and colonization led by the CCP (which is way ahead of tech with facial recognition & racial profiling and surveillance state and NO FREE SPEECH) but yeah that’s not brutal??

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost as if races around the world have been sitting still in peace just waiting for our white overlords to take over? other races are also capable of genocide, colonization, war & terror & we don’t need white guilt to change our stories & center it around y’all. Not everything is ab u

[irade kashgary @IKashgary]

@SethCampbell8 @MFnGrift @i_m_upsidedown @_anghost This is whitewashing history that existed w/o western influence. Im honestly tired of ppl trying to use our stories rather than listen those CURRENTLY suffering genocide. it also sounds v racist to think other races couldn’t have risen to power strong enough to be imperialistic.