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It isn’t anything specific to communism. The horrors human inflict upon each other is pretty sad and telling.
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It isn’t anything specific to communism. The horrors human inflict upon each other is pretty sad and telling.
Ultimately, this is specific of any form of government with too much power over its people. That’s a requirement of communism which is why this is often attributed to communism as an expected outcome. It’s entirely possible in any form of government that disarms and controls its people, rather than empowers them.
That is not true. Communism in its core is incompatible with any other system of beliefs. It must replace religions and customs in order to succeed, it must rewrite history in order to seem valuable.
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However bad communism is, please don't take HN threads in generic ideological directions. Those are off topic here. Hundreds of explanations of why that is may be found at these links: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> cultural purging and crimes against humanity
These existed long before the concept of communism, we can debate communisms merits (of which it has some but not many) or we can actually discuss the crimes against humanity being perpetrated by a dual capitalist/communist society regardless of their political theory of choice.
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However bad communism is, please don't take HN threads in generic ideological directions. Those are off topic here. Hundreds of explanations of why that is may be found at these links: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Everyone else is managing it.
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However bad communism is, please don't take HN threads in generic ideological directions. Those are off topic here. Hundreds of explanations of why that is may be found at these links: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Mmmm, but then must we do the same for capitalism?
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> cultural purging and crimes against humanity These existed long before the concept of communism, we can debate communisms merits (of which it has some but not many) or we can actually discuss the crimes against humanity being perpetrated by a dual capitalist/communist society regardless of their political theory of choice.
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#20In the article he mentions “Their goal is just to exterminate all Uighurs in one way or another”, if that is the case, why not just shoot them all? Why did they let him out?
> exterminate all Uighurs in one way or another
In this context it seems to mean that it's politically easier to "re-educate" the Uighar away than straight out kill the Uighars. If some die during the process China doesn't care but it can't be accused of genocide which would raise more concern globally.