My heart bleeds hearing about Uighurs suffering. And I welcome these kinds of posts. At the same time I am wondering why news about Palestinians are flagged and filtered away on HN. I read Haaretz on a daily basis, and what I read about this corner of the world makes me lose my faith in humanity.
China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
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#32Definitely bad and needs international attention. China’s soft power will ensure that most countries won’t go beyond the usual virtue signaling. Also keep in mind that the USA still has the most imprisoned people in the world by a large margin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce... https://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/...
Do USA imprisonment do organ harvesting? Perhaps the current imprisonment really is just a front to solve organs shortage.
Do China imprisonment do organ harvesting?
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do USA imprisonment do organ harvesting? Perhaps the current imprisonment really is just a front to solve organs shortage.
Do China imprisonment do organ harvesting?
There is some evidence for this: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...
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#34Definitely bad and needs international attention. China’s soft power will ensure that most countries won’t go beyond the usual virtue signaling. Also keep in mind that the USA still has the most imprisoned people in the world by a large margin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce... https://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/...
Do USA imprisonment do organ harvesting? Perhaps the current imprisonment really is just a front to solve organs shortage.
They do use them as slave labor :/
US is awful, China is worse. As long as US ideals had any meaning or actual drive behind them, I could defend it as the lesser evil.
Right now, its ideals have been subverted by a huge concentration of power in the hands of a few. They made the American ideal of freedom and democracy a joke.
Some of the American people still consider human life sacred, but that's eroding. (btw, I believe this virtue is partisan blind)
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#35Everywhere else communism and Islam are friends so why in China they are enemies?
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#36BuzzFeed News identified 268 newly built compounds by cross-referencing blanked-out areas on Baidu Maps with images from external satellite data providers
Pretty cool. Trying to hide the facilities made them easier to find.
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#37Definitely bad and needs international attention. China’s soft power will ensure that most countries won’t go beyond the usual virtue signaling. Also keep in mind that the USA still has the most imprisoned people in the world by a large margin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce... https://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/...
I doubt China's official figures include the so called "educational schools". If they did they'd easily top the chart. I mean, official USA figures probably don't include Guantanamo and black sites either but that's not the same magnitude.
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#38It’s disgusting that nothing will be done because everyone is addicted to cheap goods from China. If we cannot break free from current economic arrangements even after the pandemic, we will never be able to do so.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of us don't have much power. I denounced it online several times, that's all I can do. People like Lebron James, who thinks of himself like a freedom fighter, when he criticized China he ended up saying he was misinformed and he wasn't educated about the issue. He loves the money coming from China more than anything else. I want him to be reminded by this. He put his millions before human lives, just like some n…
> I denounced it online several times, that's all I can do. You can talk to your representatives about it. You can start actively boycotting Chinese-made products (not so easy, I know). You can donate to NGOs such as the UHRP (Uyghur Human Rights Project). You can follow them on Twitter. It's not like Lebron James will solve this either, so don't blame it on him.
I do boycott Chinese products. I can't boycott everything because sometimes there are no alternatives but I do what I can.
Lebron can't solve this but what he can do is at least talk about it. One word and millions of people would know about it.
Same thing happens with the NBA. They're very vocal about BLM but when it comes to HK...you can't even buy a t-shirt with "Free Honk Kong" on it.
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#40Karl Marx on religion “Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.“ A popular song: Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too The CCP is sim…
Well an atheist scientists perspective that "the big bang came out of nothing" makes as much sense as any religious text to be honest.
Stop with this bable.
We have evidence supporting theory of big bang. This theory best conforms with what we can observe.
The moment there is better theory, or new evidence that is contradictory we throw it out of the window.
> "the big bang came out of nothing" makes as much sense as any religious text to be honest.
Statements like this are so improportionally biased, it makes my head hurt.
Religions have solutions/answers so you don't need facts, science is the opposite and never absolute.
That said i don't give a flying f* in what other believe as long as they don't try to push it on me.
What china is doing is beyond despicable. And the comparisons to the holocaust are starting to be more and more apt.
Though it seems that they are more like reeducation (read brainwashing) camps with forced labor.
Correct me if I am wrong please, are there evidence of systematic ethnic cleansing?
I though that the hun chinese are imported from mainland and being used to displace the locals and treating them like 2nd class citizens.