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MIT president and faculty members defend professor arrested for China ties
- selfishgene 6y agoAfter taking money for the Media Lab from the Saudi Crown Prince, who allegedly ordered the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to a recent CIA report, and from accused sex-trafficker and convicted child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, it looks like MIT president Rafael Reif is now providing reputation laundering for the Chinese Communist Party, which is operating concentration camps to extract forced labor out of Uighars: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch... Can only wonder if the fact that the Uighars are muslims (and not jews, gypsies, or homosexuals this time around) is playing a role here.