Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution

Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution by fwn on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:17PM (#17092667)

Deconstructing freedom might be a fun exercise, it is, however, completely unrelated if it comes to criticising dystopian state oppression. (Which the linked article is about.)

Torture & forced reeducation camps are wrong regardless of some other wrongness somewhere else.

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Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution by teekert on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:19PM (#17092692)

This I agree with. I'm just saying that the free choices of people in the western world are probably not as free as they could be. Is utopia a more regulated place? This feels like a dirty proposition to my capitalist (minus the tumors it has been growing lately) mind. But the seeds of doubt have been placed...

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Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution by simonh on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:07PM (#17095104)

Fair enough, but what’s stopping you from doing something about it? I mean except for other individual free citizens generally not happening to agree with you.

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Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution by teekert on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:46AM (#17099423)

To be honest I just like posting hard statements that I think are logical conclusions but would like to see proven false with even better arguments :)

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Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution by simonh on Saturday May 19, 2018 @08:57AM (#17107707)

The thing is, it’s coming across as implicit support for an oppressive totalitarian regime.

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