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According to history, odds are yes

• dmix 8y ago
  How many examples besides the Nazis are there really? There have been plenty of internment camps, communist re-education camps, and political imprisonment which didn't involve mass genocide (including in Canada and US during WW2 of Japanese). Genocides/mass murders have almost always happened during the anarchy of war. They have almost never been done formally by an established state during normal civil life. The Nazis (and Turkey) started theirs in the stateless fringes of their warzones, after the local governments were razed. Again, I don't see how any of this helps the conversation or our understanding of the issue.
  • seppin 8y ago
    > They have almost never been done formally by an established state during normal civil life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
  • dragonwriter 8y ago
    > There have been plenty of internment camps and political imprisonment which didn't involve mass genocide Very few, if any, not tied to detention of those with some connection to a specific external enemy power in an interstate war; which is, to be sure, not to justify, say, the WW2 detention of those of Japanese descent in the US, but there are critical differences from the Chinese policy at issue.