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It's a tough issue because it's hard to give the Chinese government credit for lack of evidence when they're not letting journalists in in the first place. I l
by free_rms 6y ago
It's a tough issue because it's hard to give the Chinese government credit for lack of evidence when they're not letting journalists in in the first place.
I looked into it a year ago and the strongest evidence I found at that point was two dudes drove around and took pictures of a bunch of facilities that looked like re-education camps. They guesstimated 100k-1M, one news article wrote "a million", then the rest of them started writing "millions", and hacker news commenters write "genocide".
- panpanna 6y agoDoes it matter if it was 100k or 1M??
- free_rms 6y agoIt matters it it's mandatory job and language training vs ethnic cleansing or genocide. There's evidence for the former, none for the latter. And a paternalistic "we'll end this unrest by educating them" attitude would be pretty on-brand for the Chinese Government. Also, yes, quantity matters. How many do we have in jail on bullshit charges? It would be nice to be less, right?