Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
by Lionsion on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:19PM
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> Lots of similarities, actually. Both systems were designed to destroy a culture seen as backwards by the powers that be.
Yeah, except one occurred in the past and is now condemned; the other is a present, newly-created reality.
Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
by danharaj on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:59PM
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The last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that intervening period that will prevent such an atrocity in the future?
Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
by rubatuga on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:32PM
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Maybe the fact that students learn about how horrible it was as part of the curriculum during middle school? Also, the school in 1996 was nothing like the schools in the early 1900s, why would you use that as support?
Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
by Lionsion on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:11PM
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> The last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that intervening period that will prevent such an atrocity in the future?
Do you think the school in 1996 was doing the same things as the schools in, say, 1896? Don't you think it's more reasonable to see the 1996 closure as the end (or near the end) of a longer, continuous process, not a binary state change?
Unsurprisingly, things are more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
The echoes of these abuses continue long after the abuse itself ends.
Lots of similarities, actually. Both systems were designed to destroy a culture seen as backwards by the powers that be.