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> Because if you criticise the Chinese government you disappear for a few months at best. If you’re unlucky you’re never seen again. Wasn't too long ago that b

> Because if you criticise the Chinese government you disappear for a few months at best. If you’re unlucky you’re never seen again. Wasn't too long ago that being considered too far on the left in the US was a professional and social death sentence. Was neither too long ago that anybody who opposed illegal wars of aggression, torture, and state-sponsored assassinations, was deemed a "treacherous terrorist supporter" who might as well have flown the planes into the towers themselves, the earlier versions of that involved sending armed soldiers to violently break up peaceful student protesters ala Kent State. Heck, "race riots" are a regular thing in the US to this day, yet somehow not considered political, nor the countless black activists that were jailed, left to live in exile, or straight up assassinated in the US [0], somehow none of that is considered "political" [1]. Add in the reality how the US has not just the biggest prison population, but also the highest incarceration rate on the planet, and it comes across as a bit tone-deaf to constantly evoke how in the "evil not US countries" people are allegedly getting vanished in droves, but never ever in the US [2]. [0] https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=yjll https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/rakem-balogun-interview-black-identity-extremists-fbi-surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/rakem-balogun-... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/more-than-80-percent-of-the-thousands-held-at-chicagos-police-black-site-were-black-2015-8?r=DE&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/more-than-80-percent-of-the-...

1cvmask 6y ago
If foreigners looked at us the way we describe them (insert X bogeyman) and the fact that we have the worlds largest concentration camp of black men ever known to mankind.... Now what would they call that.... And then we employ them as prison labor or putting out dangerous fires..... Now what we call that..... We have laws that severely criminalize things that blacks do (crack consumption in the 90s) and not really for whites (cocaine consumption)....and the list goes on and on.... we call lesser things in other countries ethnic genocide etc.... Our State Department loves wagging the finger at other countries for lesser things that we do systematically domestically like civil forfeiture on blacks... Our sanctimonious grandstanding op-eds call such things in other countries as autocratic, authoritarian, dictatorship, ethnic genocide, strongman leadership, fascism and so on.... Look forward to the downvotes for stating the obvious....
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  I just wanted to point out that the parent and grandparent comments are absurd. The specific events they mention (Kent State, etc.) happened more than 50 years ago (ie. half a century.) The US also has habeas corpus, so anybody in jail can appeal, and almost all will be released. If you want to criticize the US, it's more constructive to talk about recent history, for example after 2000. Also, stop being relativist. Situations can always be improved, but perfect is the enemy of the good. People immigrate to the US, not to China, N. Vietnam, Russia, etc. Blacks are only 13% of the US population - the world doesn't revolve around them, so stop pretending otherwise. Black leaders will tell you that their #1 problem is the failure of black families, so listen to them. (Denzel Washington has some good Youtube interviews on the topic.) America is not evil. It's not perfect either, but engaging in internal conflict just makes it easier for external enemies like the CCP to obtain advantage over us. There's only one reason the CCP has more military ships than the US and it's to engage in war. You two should grow up instead of wallowing in SJW self-pity.

1cvmask 6y ago

If foreigners looked at us the way we describe them (insert X bogeyman) and the fact that we have the worlds largest concentration camp of black men ever known to mankind.... Now what would they call that.... And then we employ them as prison labor or putting out dangerous fires..... Now what we call that..... We have laws that severely criminalize things that blacks do (crack consumption in the 90s) and not really for whites (cocaine consumption)....and the list goes on and on.... we call lesser things in other countries ethnic genocide etc.... Our State Department loves wagging the finger at other countries for lesser things that we do systematically domestically like civil forfeiture on blacks... Our sanctimonious grandstanding op-eds call such things in other countries as autocratic, authoritarian, dictatorship, ethnic genocide, strongman leadership, fascism and so on.... Look forward to the downvotes for stating the obvious....

redis_mlc 6y ago
I just wanted to point out that the parent and grandparent comments are absurd. The specific events they mention (Kent State, etc.) happened more than 50 years ago (ie. half a century.) The US also has habeas corpus, so anybody in jail can appeal, and almost all will be released. If you want to criticize the US, it's more constructive to talk about recent history, for example after 2000. Also, stop being relativist. Situations can always be improved, but perfect is the enemy of the good. People immigrate to the US, not to China, N. Vietnam, Russia, etc. Blacks are only 13% of the US population - the world doesn't revolve around them, so stop pretending otherwise. Black leaders will tell you that their #1 problem is the failure of black families, so listen to them. (Denzel Washington has some good Youtube interviews on the topic.) America is not evil. It's not perfect either, but engaging in internal conflict just makes it easier for external enemies like the CCP to obtain advantage over us. There's only one reason the CCP has more military ships than the US and it's to engage in war. You two should grow up instead of wallowing in SJW self-pity.