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As a Chinese person the thing I find most dispiriting is that, if this comment had been made in a slightly more subtle and polished way (without a Hitler comparison right at the start, for one thing) it would have received a lot more upvotes and given a lot more credence
Is there a good English translation service for Chinese research?
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I wish, people would pick their example dictators for internet discussions from the appropriate magnitude of evilness pot. If you would swap "Hitler" with "Honecker" the point would still be terrifying (surveillance state, human rights violations, unjustified killings and imprisonments) but not as over the top and far away from reality (gigantic genocide).
Locking a million muslims up and exterminating them isn't genocide?
"It is actually designed to exterminate — eliminate — the whole Uighur nation as people," he said.
"Children are being removed even when their families are willing to care for them, according to Financial Times Beijing correspondent, Emily Feng."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-28/china-working-to-elim...
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As a Chinese person the thing I find most dispiriting is that, if this comment had been made in a slightly more subtle and polished way (without a Hitler comparison right at the start, for one thing) it would have received a lot more upvotes and given a lot more credence
I agree that the comparison to Hitler is a non sequitur. However, as a citizen in a democracy, I am pretty sure the writer of that posts intends it to be a criticism of an authoritarian dictatorship and not China's people or people of Chinese descent.
I should also say that the distinction between "criticizing government" and "criticizing people" is routinely not observed, even by Democrats. When Obama was making a case for the TPP, one of the main argument he gave was "The TPP would let America, not China, lead the way on global trade". Zero-sum language like this sends a signal to Americans that if doing something X is bad for this other group of humans, then that's an argument in favor of doing X, not (crazy thought!) an argument against doing it. That's how you get to where we are now where prominent Democrats like Chuck Schumer can say "we must be united in our fight against the Chinese" and not a single American, liberal or conservative, even took issue with that kind of language.
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Instead, just the fact that one day China might be the first destination for young talent instead of the US will be enough to give them the edge in their fight for superiority. Whatever the case humanity will see at least some benefit from these type of competitions.