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This is just extreme whataboutism. There is a vast difference between China spying on and locking people up for being the wrong religion, and the CIA secretly
by dsl 7y ago
This is just extreme whataboutism.
There is a vast difference between China spying on and locking people up for being the wrong religion, and the CIA secretly recording a conversation about the planning of a bombing.
- pessimizer 7y agoThat's true, but there's also a vast difference between the CIA spying on and locking people up for being the wrong religion, and China secretly recording a conversation about the planning of a bombing. Similarities between the two governments are that they would both characterize their spying on, imprisoning, and torture of religious minorities as preventing potential bombings, and characterize their counterparts as oppressive police states. China might have the stronger case, as they have about a quarter of the prisoners per-capita that the US does.
- meruru 7y agoI'm glad we can all agree that mass surveillance is bad.
- pwodhouse 7y agoI might prefer 4x detention time if I got to choose a US prison over China. I'd certainly prefer the freedom of thought and speech in the US. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2014/jun/22/inside-chinese-prison-americans-perspective/ https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2014/jun/22/inside-chin...
- raxxorrax 7y ago> This is just extreme whataboutism. No. > There is a vast difference between China spying No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the_CIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the... careful, long page.