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What’s the background here? Why does China need to do this?
by mrfusion 6y ago
What’s the background here? Why does China need to do this?
- Draw_Daw 6y agoYeah, let's try to understand the oppresser point of view to help us sensitive people deal with this issue so we can better sleep at night. While we are at it, Why not do the same with Nazi Germany and try to understand why Hitler was burning jews. Maybe he was right? /s
- briefcomment 6y agoNo one thinks of themselves as pointlessly evil. Any information on motivations is useful.
- ufmace 6y agoShort version as I understand it - there was a little bit of Islamic terrorism a decade or so ago. China decided to address it by basically wiping the entire religion and culture out of existence. Thus why they call them "deradicalization" and "re-education" camps. Their PR story is that they're trying to take "suspected Islamic radicals" and reeducate them to "integrate into mainstream Chinese society". In practice, this seems to mean that if you're the wrong religion and so much as breathe funny, off you go to the camps, where you will be basically tortured and brainwashed into adopting Han Chinese culture.