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China denies two million people detained in Xinjiang concentration camps
- yumraj 8y ago"There is no internment camp, no concentration camp, there is only vocational training centers," Dai told the panel. Are there any other such vocational centers in any other part of China for Han Chinese or any other ethnicity?
- ComputerGuru 8y agoIt's affirmative action! Only the downtrodden will be "educated!"
- sexy_seedbox 8y agoHow does one “graduate” from these “vocational training centers”?
- foxyv 8y agoVocations will set you free?
- zachguo 8y agoActually yes, it's kinda like a correctional facility, people would be set free in a year or two.
- lexyearn 8y agoIt is hard to understand how could a country move backwards so fast, from banning their access to the internet to taking them to concentration camps.
- JBReefer 8y agoChina moves fast. They move fast to build rail, to build cities, and to intern people. NYC learned the lessons when we went through something much (much!) smaller with Robert Moses destroying huge swathes of the city, so now doing anything takes forever. That's a feature of representative government - I get to complain about the new bike lane bioswale design, and they have to listen. This is slow. They don't have the same official processes in China, so they are fast, in both wonderful and horrible things.
- kevas 8y agoSpeaking of Robert Moses, a really good book about him & his doings: Power Broker by Robert Caro.
- scarmig 8y agoConcentration camps aren't a step "backwards": they've been used in pretty much all modern societies. They did not exist before the modern era (say, 1800), and are a thoroughly modern phenomenon.
- tiredyam 8y agoModern in a historical sense sure, modern in the colloquial sense no.
- woodandsteel 8y agoBackwards in the sense of morally worse. Perhaps you disagree?
- Proven 8y agoThere's no due process or natural rights, and decision making doesn't happen in a decentralized way - that's why things can move fast. And that's why western leftists love China. Imagine all of the great things that could be accomplished within days if they didn't have to deal with nonsensical distractions such as property rights and political opposition?
- olliej 8y agoCool. Nazi propaganda used similar terms for concentration camps.
- Nomentatus 8y agoIndeed. "Concentration camps" was just such a euphemism, itself: this was the British term for relocation camps for civilians in the Boer War. They weren't great, but they weren't death camps.