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None of these are good, but they are far short of genocide of our own citizens.
by bfieidhbrjr 6y ago
None of these are good, but they are far short of genocide of our own citizens.
- Robotbeat 6y agoSure, but it’s just way too easy for China to employ Whataboutism when we have concentration camps on our border. Without having the moral high ground, actions against much deeper abuses (even like genocide) ring hollow and appear like mere geopolitical maneuvering. Particularly when our POTUS actually supported the Uighur concentration camps according to folks who worked with him: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-detention-camp-xinjiang-2020-6?amp https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-detention-camp-x...
- jfengel 6y agoHonestly, when we're incarcerating almost 1% of our nation, it's not at all clear that that's "far short of genocide". Especially when that 1% disproportionately falls on some racial groups, and that impact radiates out to further decimate those communities. And while it's not outright genocide, it contributes to a very high murder rate in those communities -- some of it committed directly by the government. If forced to draw some sort of moral hierarchy I'd say yes, it's still not quite up to the organized atrocities committed against the Uighurs. But our disorganized, systemic atrocities are vast, and every other first-world nation is horrified.