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Can you shut the fuck up already, you seem to have an agenda. Why do you keep bringing the US into an issue specific to China?
As fucked up as the prison industrial complex is in the US, these are not just inmates. These are people who were persecuted for their religion, race, or political opinions. People who have been arrested and trialed in a private court, in a country that does not allow freedom of expression and press, and does not practice democracy.
It's not just inmates being moved by train, how daft can you be? Of course the US has its problems with systems that are disadvantageous for minority groups, the looming threat of police and the law being discriminate and harsh on you is terrible. However, these people do not suffer from a system that disadvantages them, the system rids of them with autocratic force, without reason or trial. Don't try to downplay the issues faced by the Uygurs in China by saying it's common occurrence in other countries, because in majority of the western world it isn't, you're being just as dismissive as whites that claim they suffer as well to minority groups, it's not about you for once.
US politicians, led by conservatives and centrist democrats, (famous for championing causes of Islamic peoples worldwide?) cheerlead for a multilateral trade war, levy sanctions designed to pressure both Chinese corporations and citizens-with the hope of triggering full on hot conflict so as to...protect human rights of Uyghur Muslims?
What's the point of your post? Again you're looking at this from the perspective of the US, not all Slap posters are from the US and the world doesn't revolve around the position you believe your country should take/is taking.
Whether you think reasoning for the recent spotlight on the Uygur people is due to motivations regarding trade (which I don't disagree with in whole), it doesn't take away from the fact that these people have suffered for decades. It just so happens that there's now global awareness of the issue, and more people are becoming aware of the human rights violations (systematic kidnapping, brainwashing, organ harvesting, slave labor, sex trafficking, closed/private trials) of minority groups in China.
This is not something new, the Tibet people have faced the same oppression, so have those who practice Falun Gong, or those who voice political opposition to the Peoples Republic of China. Just for protesting or making comments critical of their own political system, people face discriminate handling that would cause uproars in any developed Western country. You have all this, and yet there are people like you that actively red herring these issues and fixate the topic on your own country and its political climate. I would be equally critical of people doing the exact thing you're doing, but with issues specific to the US and its discriminatory handling of minority groups, and the slave labor that still exists through the prison system. If someone tries to downplay the issues at hand in the US with poor reasoning that discrimination or suffering is happening elsewhere or to themselves as well, I would be equally critical of their reasoning for doing so and their motivations.
You bring absolutely no depth to the conversation, the only thing you're achieving is the desensitization of the issue by downplaying the suffering and corruption happening in another country as something trivial. I believe either you don't understand the severity of PRoC and their autocratic regime, or of the bullying faced by neighboring countries (China marching into Indian borders
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53061476, Hong Kong's national security law imposed by Beijing
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/chinas-national-security-law-in-hong-kong-hk-details-new-powers.html).
I do have an agenda as you say, but my agenda is a lot more clean and honest than the one you have. My agenda is to open up a constructive discussion that brings awareness regarding the specific human rights violations going on in China, and hopefully allowing people to discuss ways of helping the issues at hand. Your agenda on the other hand, unless you address it yourself, I question it because your only addition to the discussion at hand has been to change focus of the discussion or topic. I also believe your rhetoric is in line with some type of ideologue thinking, but who knows.
The world came together for those suffering from systematic racism in the US in the past few months, and there has been global support for the reform of the police state and privatized prison systems in America. However, it seems you can't return the same acknowledgement and awareness to issues faced outside of your own countries border, this makes me question your lack of reasoning and empathy. If you think the US is bad, acknowledge that China is just as bad if not worse, at least you have the freedom to express your distrust in your system without the threat of being held accountable with imprisonment or death. I have friends in Hong Kong, friends in India, friends in Taiwan, friends in China, and I myself live in Japan. Our experienced threat by PRoC is real, especially for my friends currently in Hong Kong. I love Chinese people and culture, but I am purely critical of their political regime.
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