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Mirroring the sentence sure looks cool and makes the two situations look so equal, but any US citizen is free to criticize US prisons, and free to find informat
by chr1 7y ago
Mirroring the sentence sure looks cool and makes the two situations look so equal, but any US citizen is free to criticize US prisons, and free to find information about them. This is very different from China which desperately tries to hide the fact of existence of this concentration camps. Anyone who tries to talk about this in China ends up in Chinese prison (which is separate from this camps and worse than US prison). All the people who were released were threatened to not talk about camps, people living in cities near camps have malware installed on their phones to not be able to talk with anyone outside their cities.
China condemning US won't change anything because the situation in US is the way it is because the people know and do not care enough about the issue. US condemning China would help because China tries to hide the truth from its own citizens who believe the camps are kind of schools where people learn history and get rid of religious superstitions.
By putting the false equivalence sign between these two situations you do disservice to both causes.
- robocat 7y agoIt is easy to find differences between the situations, or even just use whataboutism as an excuse. However if we look at percentage of population jailed for any reason, the US looks atrocious. * The US has about 400,000 people jailed on remand, i.e. they have been accused of a crime but haven't made it to trial. * About 1 in 6 of the black population is in jail (by my envelope calculation). * 3 in 10 state prisoners developed symptoms of mental illness (with no recent history of mental illness). Yes, US prisoners are not political prisoners. Selecting "political prisoners" as the only category that deserves political pressure seems wrong to me.