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There was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Seventh_Cadre_School https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Seventh_Cadre_School during the Cultural Revolution.
by fspeech 6y ago
There was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Seventh_Cadre_School https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Seventh_Cadre_School during the Cultural Revolution.
- free_rms 6y agoYes, and you've stripped all of the ideology and mania out of it by referencing it in this context. OP who wrote that excellent post would have known better. Are Uyghurs being sent out into the farmlands to toil on stupid projects as part of a hyper-idealistic, "we're all workers" message? No, none of that, in any way. They're indoors, and the message has nothing to do with hammers or sickles.
- fspeech 6y agoI am saying that the current generation of leaders may not find the idea of camps abhorrent. Xi was himself a sent-down youth. He probably did not like it at the time but he hasn't displayed any strong resentment of it either.
- free_rms 6y agoNational leaders, everywhere, find very little abhorrent. They're in the business of abhorrence in the name of maintaining national power.