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It will be an interesting case study to see what they do with the Uyghurs. What can a government do to an enemy population when they've sequenced the DNA of eve
by dqpb 8y ago
It will be an interesting case study to see what they do with the Uyghurs. What can a government do to an enemy population when they've sequenced the DNA of every individual in that population?
- _bxg1 8y agoI don't know if "interesting" is the word I would use; what they're doing to that subpopulation is approaching Nazi Germany-level stuff. However, the human rights violations could prompt the global community to take action like they did in WW2, which could honestly be one of the better outcomes of all this.
- gojomo 8y agoWW2 wasn't an action of "the global community" against "human rights violations". There was imperial/economic competition, escalating through trade restrictions to military actions and invasions, becoming all-out war. Many of the most egregious human rights violations weren't understood until after the war, and reached their worst practices under wartime pressures. And against this, you're hoping for "action like they did in WW2, which could honestly be one of the better outcomes of all this"?!? No, WW3 would be bad.
- r00fus 8y agos/interesting/distressing/ I have no high hopes that good comes of what China does there.