Equating what is (reportedly) going on in Xinjiang to residential schools or to japanese internment is not a good comparison.

In residential schools the whole point was to remove culture with no other reason than to clear out areas for white expansion backed by imperialism. The terror was the point - babies torn away from parents, no history, culture, language allowed.

For Japanese internment, the point was that they presumed there was a threat from Japanese nationals, and cruelly rounded up 100% innocent people where there was no violence or attacks committed, and no interference from japan itself. It was purely a tool to subjugate a group for the government to create an enemy and steal their property.

For Xinjiang, we don’t really know the extent of what’s going on. Almost certainly there aren’t millions of detainees being full on tortured and murdered. On the other end, there is certainly more to it than just rounding up proven terrorists and enabling instruction to allow them better chances at success and peace within chinese society.

But, the reported purpose is to deradicalize real terrorists that have proven CIA backing and have causes thousands of deaths of innocent people in Xinjiang. This is an actual problem, and not just made up or in the name of imperialism.

There are certainly issues with innocent people being detained as well, and there is surely abuse in some of the facilities - and this should be more transparent and dealt with. However it also appears that there really is support of keeping culture, and support of keeping religion and language, and also real educational opportunities to work towards deradicalization.

I think the problem is we don’t really know if exactly what’s going on, but I haven’t seen any reports that seem reputable that describe some kind of mass torture rings, and I have little reason to doubt the Chinese governments goals and motivation of the program.

Is there abuse? Are there some people getting caught up in it that shouldn’t? Probably, and the opacity of the program leads to a situation where this is difficult to fix and that’s bad.

So, I don’t know.

There are two views on politics. One is from people who are directly affected by policy, and one is from people who have the luxury of considering politics a game.

Sure they’ve read a book, Gulag Archipelago

I noticed how white all of the left was, which aligned with my super racist white supremacist ideals.

Somehow Chomsky thinks that because the dinner is with Woody Allen that makes it better. Oh Noam.

As a father this makes me very sad

Something that really bothers me about any discussion relating to agriculture is how the word farmer is thrown around as if it’s clear who they’re referring to. Like, the farmers, I believe are actually the owners, right? And the workers are the people who actually do the farming work?

Of course the owners are resisting extra safety measures. It costs money.

Imagine having a train station in any city that you could get on a train and get to your hometown in america

This is exactly why I don’t store my passwords as giant metal 3D cutouts of letter shapes

I tried lemm.ee and it’s cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it’s frustrating to scroll past

Lmao must be rough