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>Anyone who tries to equivocate this with what is happening in the United States is not only wrong but morally bankrupt. Xinjiang shares a land border with Afg
by jdietrich 6y ago
>Anyone who tries to equivocate this with what is happening in the United States is not only wrong but morally bankrupt.
Xinjiang shares a land border with Afghanistan and Pakistan. There is a significant Uyghur separatist movement active in Xinjiang, backed by Al-Qaeda, Hizb Ut-Tahrir and the Pakistani Taliban. America might not commit human rights abuses on this scale domestically, but they certainly do it overseas. Would America be this restrained in the same circumstances?
- dforrestwilson 6y agoWe haven’t wholesale imprisoned all Pashtuns and Arabs within the US. We also haven’t attempted to control their ability to have children. That would be genocide, which is what China is doing. Unequivocally. Emphatically. Yes, America has been more constrained.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoProbably? There are lots of separatist movements in the US; I've never seen anyone propose that e.g. the Calexit campaigners need to be put in re-education camps, even though some polls have suggested up to a quarter of the state might support it. The government just kinda says "come on this is silly".