Re:China’s Re-education Camps
by ardy42 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:29PM
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> how important are the differences really?
The differences are very important. In one, the prisoners are ideally a threat to the members of their society in some way: rapists, con artists, thieves. In the other, the prisoners are only a threat to or a scapegoat for the already-powerful rulers: intellectuals, dissidents, minorities.
> whether you are in a Chinese prison or a US prison does it really matter which injust, ridiculous, hypocritical system put you there?
Yes it does, because they're not "injust, ridiculous, hypocritical" to anywhere near the same degree.
The differences are very important. In one, the prisoners are ideally a threat to the members of their society in some way: rapists, con artists, thieves. In the other, the prisoners are only a threat to or a scapegoat for the already-powerful rulers: intellectuals, dissidents, minorities.
> whether you are in a Chinese prison or a US prison does it really matter which injust, ridiculous, hypocritical system put you there?
Yes it does, because they're not "injust, ridiculous, hypocritical" to anywhere near the same degree.