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> what in US parlance would be called Islamic jihadists in their own territory. Bad analogy, because the vast majority of the Uighurs are ordinary people who a
by cromwellian 8y ago
> what in US parlance would be called Islamic jihadists in their own territory.
Bad analogy, because the vast majority of the Uighurs are ordinary people who are being hurt by a capricious dragnet.
The proper analogy is the WW2 Japanese Internment of Japanese Americans by the FDR government.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoEven that analogy has problems. America was at war with Japan. China is happily and deeply economically engaged with Muslim nations. It is almost entirely an internal matter for China to maintain control and order.
- cromwellian 8y agoYou say control and order, I say rounding Uighur for things like having a beard or refusing to let PLA soldiers stay in their house. The language you’re using denudes the situation of any semblance of the real horror of it. The ‘control and order’ you’re talking about goes far beyond putting up security checkpoints or arresting people for disorder, they’re sending people to re-education camps for the mere suspicion of opposition and they are forcibly trying to “HANify” these people’s culture away unlike the other ethnic minorities in China like the Dong, Miao, Hui, or Yi. Is it an internal manner? Sure. Do I have to ageee with it? Nope, it does not absolve the PRC of criticism. The usage of terrorism to erect a security surveillance state should be opposed everywhere.