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> no better off than those in Xinjiang. This is false equivalence. While treatment of many groups is disgraceful in the US, the level of surveillance, social
by panarky 8y ago
> no better off than those in Xinjiang.
This is false equivalence.
While treatment of many groups is disgraceful in the US, the level of surveillance, social control and repression is nowhere near what happens in China.
China has locked up millions Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in re-education camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
Yes, America's wars are shameful.
Guantánamo Bay, the FISA "court" and domestic concentration camps for asylum seekers are contemptible.
But these things are not on the same scale as what China is doing.
The fact that we can have this conversation without censorship or fear of arrest is evidence that the US and China are far from equivalent.