Imagine being part of the Uyghurs, a group facing actual genocide, while world leaders, left-wing activists, and the media scream incessantly about an imaginary one.

That’s the position Salih Hudayar finds himself in. Foreign minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, he has been trying desperately to bring attention to what China is doing to his people – the Turkic, mostly Muslim population of a region China calls Xinjiang.

In the new episode of They Stand Corrected, the podcast and newsletter fact-checking the news, Salih calls out the epic failure of those who claim to stand for “human rights” but turn a blind eye to reality. (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.)

“The hypocrisy that this exposes — even the Muslim world’s, ‘Oh, we care about our oppressed Muslim brothers and sisters,’ it’s all fake,” he told me.

It’s only when it’s tied to their own interest. They’ve sold out their own........

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