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The scale, intensity and length are just not comparable. It's like comparing the Gulag to modern American prison labour.
by 99052882514569 7y ago
The scale, intensity and length are just not comparable. It's like comparing the Gulag to modern American prison labour.
- thawaway1837 7y agoIf we are talking about that specific time period, then what China is doing now is hardly any worse than what was being done to African Americans in the US at the time. And the scale is absolutely comparable. The major difference, however, is that the US was still a democracy that had mechanisms to allow for things to be changed for the better. It’s hard to see what mechanisms for improvements exist in China.
- 99052882514569 7y agoSorry, not sure what it is we're comparing? 1950s segregation to the oppression of Uygurs, in which case no, in the 1950s the US was not running an all-encompassing dystopian surveillance state, mass reeducation camps and oppressive forced assimilation of African Americans? Or 1950s segregation to imprisonment and torture of political dissidents in general, in which case no, in the 1950s the US was not rounding up every Black activist and executing him or throwing him in jail for decades?
- senorjazz 7y ago> Or 1950s segregation to imprisonment and torture of political dissidents in general, in which case no, in the 1950s the US was not rounding up every Black activist and executing him or throwing him in jail for decades? Not on home soil perhaps. But from the 50s to at least the 80s, that was the general policy in Latin Amercia. Then for more recent you can look to the middle east for the mass round up of civilians, torture and decades long imprisonment without charge. Not exactly the same, but correlations exist, as they do for the parent comment you are replying to