NBA team co-owner and billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya is facing internet outrage after declaring that “nobody cares about” the plight of persecuted Uyghurs in China’s far west Xinjiang region. “Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, okay? You bring it up because you care and I think it’s nice that you care. The rest of us don’t care,” he said in a podcast that he co-hosts after another host brought up Washington’s recent ban on all products from Xinjiang over use of forced labor. “I’m telling you a very hard ugly truth,” he continued. “Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line.” The United States and several other Western nations have characterized Beijing’s repressive policy in Xinjiang as a genocide, which a UK-based independent people’s tribunal, chaired by distinguished international human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice QC, agrees with. The abuses, including slave labor, forced sterilization, and …