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China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight

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Re: China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight

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Post by hprotagonist »

seibelj wrote: post #2

China is a communist dictatorship where you can be arrested and possibly murdered for saying the wrong thing. So this is not very surprising.

not to be glib, but it wasn't surprising in 1934 in Dachau, either.

Lack of surprise doesn't mean much of anything w/r/t what the appropriate response ought to be.

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Post by danjoc »

>Uighurs murdered almost 200 bystanders, mostly Han Chinese

That's like murdering my entire high school. The internment camp idea seems like a good one. People who are this violent are the result of bad upbringing. They need to understand that murdering someone because of some perceived insult, transgression, or disagreement is not acceptable in a civil society. These people will be better off when they've been reeducated.

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Post by perlpimp »

danjoc wrote: post #5

>Uighurs murdered almost 200 bystanders, mostly Han Chinese That's like murdering my entire high school. The internment camp idea seems like a good one. People who are this violent are the result of bad upbringing. They need to understand that murdering someone because of some perceived insult, transgression, or disagreement is not acceptable in a civil society. These people will be better off when they've been reedu…

Took no time for 50cent troops to show up

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

danjoc wrote: post #5

>Uighurs murdered almost 200 bystanders, mostly Han Chinese That's like murdering my entire high school. The internment camp idea seems like a good one. People who are this violent are the result of bad upbringing. They need to understand that murdering someone because of some perceived insult, transgression, or disagreement is not acceptable in a civil society. These people will be better off when they've been reedu…

>Hundreds of thousands of minority men and women, mostly Uighurs but also others, have disappeared into these compounds in the last year, usually with no notice to family members and no charges of illegal activity. As police have struggled to round up enough Uighurs to meet internment quotas, the tiniest signs of potential disloyalty to the authorities, such as giving up drinking or not greeting officials, have become grounds for disappearance.

That is a very very far cry from a prison, which is what you seem to be implying these camps are.

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Post by chrisBob »

danjoc wrote: post #5

>Uighurs murdered almost 200 bystanders, mostly Han Chinese That's like murdering my entire high school. The internment camp idea seems like a good one. People who are this violent are the result of bad upbringing. They need to understand that murdering someone because of some perceived insult, transgression, or disagreement is not acceptable in a civil society. These people will be better off when they've been reedu…

Are you aware that your comment comes across as extremely racist? Punishing an entire ethnic group for a riot can't possibly be a good idea.

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Post by Thriptic »

danjoc wrote: post #5

>Uighurs murdered almost 200 bystanders, mostly Han Chinese That's like murdering my entire high school. The internment camp idea seems like a good one. People who are this violent are the result of bad upbringing. They need to understand that murdering someone because of some perceived insult, transgression, or disagreement is not acceptable in a civil society. These people will be better off when they've been reedu…

This reads like CCP shill material and is logically absurd.

If it's not OK to attack a group of innocents (the murdered Han) in retaliation for actions committed by others (the government) which they did not participate in, then why is it OK for the government to persecute large swaths of innocent Uighurs for the crimes committed by the minority of Uighurs that attacked the Han?

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