authorities in northwest China are looking for informants and they're
willing to pay
and what are the things they're looking for is people who have beards
other worry that those who have beards are potential hazards to society and so
they set up this informant program
the campaign is currently offering rewards ranging from 50 yuan
talk to 50,000 for a wide range of intelligence
from those wearing beards to spreading information to topple the authorities
so you know different %uh spectrum but both of them are potential hazards to
society
and now this is not just some random hatred for facial hair
there's a course a religious and ethnic component to it
because of course people in northwest China who are likely to be wearing
beards
are not likely to be ethnically hun Chinese they're more likely to be
Muslims
you hers for instance yeah it's a good thing I don't have a beard on exactly
you can only moderate yeah it's not me
okay that was that's right we're trying out of here before their
called Wieters here in the an american media but its
with the same group is my last time you were right by
now but we're not I'm not a euchre which is funny
I our family maimed ourselves in Turkey
after that group so we're not harder that ethnic group grade
a so that and the group is of course a pressing China
had they won independence China has no interest in giving them independence
and no one other ways a China presses them is by
cutting off their freedom of religion now of course the China a daily which is
a basically
a mouthpiece for the Chinese government so is free to religious beliefs or
practices are respected and protected throughout the country
well that's funny because so the state-run Global Times
said we're putting out this bounty over fifty to fifty thousand
are you on for any chord illegal religious activities
yeahh and its racial here everyone is wearing a
well as well read and in some cases people don't get their welfare benefits
if they refused to cut off their beards or if the
refused to take up their bell so clearly they're discriminating against its
people
in a very legal and structured informatics fashion
thought no dog in this bullshit that you're like people freedom religious
beliefs your
actively implementing in your system and implemented sport
you know i'll i really said she does like incredibly eloquent points in a
ghost
dubious bullshit I
football thank you you know they're not coming down on who met you
paired yeah hold on let your line racial said
go to labor but that's a badass beard hey where'd
that's how you can have a martial arts movie without a couple guys with the
boom and your
I it crazy a different parts of the world are like in northwest China right
now you can certainly
reported to the the authorities for having a beard in Brooklyn hipsters are
getting beard transplants to think they could have nothing
yeah it before I got to the weaker party the Muslim part also why do the chinese
hate hipsters
wait until they find them some burr seventeen years but
trust me they're just trying to be cool yeah placed a gene they're not actually
subversive
but of course the the discrimination against that group goes much beyond
worries about beards there have been previous massacres are back in 2009 at
least 200 people were killed over a thousand injured
in one particular attack in the regional capital there
and so course things are much worse there but it might sometimes I like when
we talk about stories like this because
seeing in another country can allow us to sort of psychologically distance
ourselves from that
and then maybe in hindsight afterward realized that perhaps we're not that
much better in our part of the world
in France there's major discrimination against Muslims in parts of Germany
in the UK in the US we do profiling its muslims the NYPD just shut down
its best special investigative June unit that was looking into Muslim students
like yeah it's worse in China but it's bad here too and we should care about
both with Leslie care especially because we don't know what the unintended
consequences are here as well so we we like to think that because were
discriminated
against this group its gonna go away but really what can happen is that
people have psychological reactance and this prosecution actually reaffirms our
belief then
Islam right in their religion and just make them want to like
but it in your face more alike indoctrinate you or drop bombs or
whatever right
the other extreme example but we think that we're doing something good
and we're at good a by getting rid Mb
this group obviously than evil thing but they think they're doing something
to get rid of the group and really perhaps to do in completely the opposite
that good and
that's a bullshit rather the only way you can really get rid of it
course you really get rid which they probably not prepared to do
yet which I can't do anything I got right you know you can style it up
and that's what I say this it will let you know that you had a moment to stalin
in the soviet union
and Linwood Avenue russia now there'd be more religious than they've ever been in
a sense and
Putin is going more in that direction and that's why they have all day at the
gay propaganda that they have now in I you know
the says absolutely hot the right I'm as secular as it gets and I
I can't stand from the miles religion over any sort I'm again said a hundred
percent
are but I would never bandit I wouldn't discriminate against said
cuz if any be it's counterproductive it because
you when you try to ban something that means you're afraid of it you try to run
away from it
whereas if you're really secular or security his remastered
a pain debating religious have added all I was gonna get some rain
is no reason in the world to be afraid of that and so you should engage it not
not do this and whether it's france the US for China
that if the even if you're the most if he is secular person there is
you're missing the point of secularism it's not the ban religious either being
against religion
is still out all saw yet