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Because they were terrorists, we didn't hold 3 million of them in gitmo simply because they were ethnic minorities. Orders of magnitudes in difference. Holdin
by throwaway292893 5y ago
Because they were terrorists, we didn't hold 3 million of them in gitmo simply because they were ethnic minorities.
Orders of magnitudes in difference.
Holding a few dozen suspected terrorists !== holding 3 million people (nearly an entire race)
You can justify there may be proof for those few alleged jihads. You cannot reasonably prove those 3 million people are all terrorists.
Where are the cries to shut down these camps like there were cries to shut down Gitmo?
- 1cvmask 5y agoThey were alleged terrorists. They were released after they were found to not be terrorists. Otherwise they would still be in captivity I suppose.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoChina's justification for holding Uyghurs is that they are terrorists, with a similar amount of evidence provided as for Guantanamo detainees.
- MagnumOpus 5y agoOrders of magnitude. While both strain credulity, it is more plausible to take a government at its word for 300 people than for 3 million. Plausibly it could be the case that there are 100 wrongly imprisoned people in Camp X-Ray without legal recourse... But equally plausibly there are at the very least 1,000,000 wrongly imprisoned people in the Uyghurstan concentration camps, with thousands added every day...
- atatatat 5y agoA good chunk of Twitter et al. Where are you?