• Filthmontane@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Just ignore the existence of terrorist group that keeps stabbing citizens and setting off bombs. Pretend that Xinjiang is not an automous zone with its own governance. Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world. Get mad because the belt and road initiative is improving a region cut off from resources for so long. Brain broken Western media.

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      9 months ago

      Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world.

      TIL two wrongs make a right.

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        9 months ago

        Only the most brain dead of Americans won’t admit our gulag system…

        Hard to find a mainland Chinese or even atankie to admit that their “labor” camps

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          9 months ago

          The mainland Chinese who exist under strict censorship you mean? Who could face consequences for their speech because they live in China?

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        It’s not whataboutism, ya dingus. Prison labor is simply a common part of most countries. I’m simply stating that there’s no difference between “work camps” and “prison labor.” There’s also no difference between “reeducation” and “rehabilitation” or “forced labor” and “prison labor programs.”

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      Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world

      You genocide deniers are the only ones who think this is an either-or situation.

      Most people who are even just inclined to the left condemn both, as should you, but you clearly don’t give a shit about defending oppressed people, unless you can use them as a debate tool to help you lick other oppressor boot.

      So despite what you like to tell yourself, you have no moral high ground to be judging others from, genocide denying bootlicker.

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      9 months ago

      You’re right! We need to do something about all those terrorists lining the streets of Xinjiang. We all must band together to rid the world of this vile, evil scourge called the CCP!