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China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes

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Post by olliej »

Also concentration camps.

But no one has pulled out of China. Companies still seem to be falling over themselves to help. Personally my feeling is that any engineer working on software or hardware to support this kind of effort should be considered a party to it, and so be subject to international law. Especially in the US and Europe where there is no “I was afraid for my life” justification.

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Post by csense »

It makes a lot of sense. If Islam causes terrorism, forcing people to not be Islamic is one way to deal with it.

Of course, it's not really tenable in societies with freedom of religion, and goes against the fundamental axiom of a free society, that people who don't hurt anybody should be able to quietly live their lives without government harassment.

No mainstream Western politician will make the case, though. There's too much money to be made from doing business with China, and no one wants to be seen defending Islam too much after 9/11.

And it might just make China a target. Pre-9/11 the US was pretty tolerant of Muslims, and we still got attacked. It seems like this kind of repression makes an open-and-shut case for jihad against China, if you're a radical Muslim instigator.

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Post by DougN7 »

mrnobody_67 wrote: post #3

1 million Uighurs = statistic. no media fallout or talk of not taking Chinese money or buying chinese goods or talks of companies not taking Chinese investment. sad.

We definitely get excited when people we understand are hurt, but easily ignore those we don’t. I don’t know why that is. I find myself doing it sometimes. It is sad.

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Post by inetknght »

olliej wrote: post #4

Also concentration camps. But no one has pulled out of China. Companies still seem to be falling over themselves to help. Personally my feeling is that any engineer working on software or hardware to support this kind of effort should be considered a party to it, and so be subject to international law. Especially in the US and Europe where there is no “I was afraid for my life” justification.

Instead there's the arguably more vile "I was afraid for my job" coupled with people half-way across the world just being a statistic since most engineers/marketing/managers/everyone will likely have never even _met_ the people their product will adversely affect let alone gotten to know them.

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Post by angry_octet »

Let's not sugar coat this, the CCP is engaging in systematic ethnic cleansing. They are trying Cultural Revolution style reeducation and surveillance first, but who knows how many will die in the camps.

This level of repression makes Northern Ireland look like a tea party. If it weren't that Xinjiang is so poor I'd think it inevitable that there would be armed resistance -- without a crop like opium the Taliban wouldn't have IEDs or guns.

The CCP is mad to think they can erase Islam by forcing the locals to eat pork and taking away their children.

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Post by throwaway4652 »

olliej wrote: post #4

Also concentration camps. But no one has pulled out of China. Companies still seem to be falling over themselves to help. Personally my feeling is that any engineer working on software or hardware to support this kind of effort should be considered a party to it, and so be subject to international law. Especially in the US and Europe where there is no “I was afraid for my life” justification.

What I find fascinating is that Xi Jinping was sent to a concentration camp from 1969 to 1975, and now he is the president of China.

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Post by throwaway4652 »

angry_octet wrote: post #8

Let's not sugar coat this, the CCP is engaging in systematic ethnic cleansing. They are trying Cultural Revolution style reeducation and surveillance first, but who knows how many will die in the camps. This level of repression makes Northern Ireland look like a tea party. If it weren't that Xinjiang is so poor I'd think it inevitable that there would be armed resistance -- without a crop like opium the Taliban would…

I thought these current policies are a reaction to the armed terrorist attacks that happened in the past few years? Like the one at the train station that hurt hundreds of people?
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