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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by morpheuskafka on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:46PM (#20763552)
If the government can throw you in into a re-education camp at a snap of their fingers, that's not economic prosperity in my book. Better to be poor and free than economically sufficient at the pleasure and whim of a dictator.

The entire concept of economic prosperity is meaningless outside a free market with due process protections. If the government can take away your prosperity for no reason at all, it's purely arbitrary and ephemeral whether or not you actually have it at any given moment.

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by peteretep on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:32PM (#20763814)
> Better to be poor and free than economically sufficient at the pleasure and whim of a dictator

Just how poor have you ever been?

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by supernova87a on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:11PM (#20764313)
Great question. I would guess the person stating the strong opinion above has never had it tested by being in those circumstances and seeing how far it holds.
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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by seppin on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:58PM (#20764253)
How many years have you spent in jail as a political prisoner?
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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by peteretep on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:33PM (#20764399)
The same amount as the vast majority of of people in China: 0
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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by seppin on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:37PM (#20770517)
The millions in Xinjiang would like a word. Why do you spend your free time defending a brutal autocracy on the internet?
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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by peteretep on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:04PM (#20773520)
Because the truth is more important than making up lies to feel good about yourself? Also, let's talk about the "Land of the Free" for a moment...

China's incarceration rate -- for crime -- is 118 per 100,000, for 1,649,804 total. Let's add the DOD claim that an extra 3m are held in re-education camps, and take that to 4.5m, which takes us to 308 per hundred thousand. The US figure is _655_, disproportionately poor people.

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by seppin on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:05AM (#20817560)
Mindless babble and whataboutism. I thought this website had more intelligent conversation..

Comparing an over-zealous drug incarnation against a political political concentration camp is just perfect. Every time I visit Europe I encounter similar lazy thinking from aging leftists and teenage anarchists.

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by throwaway3e2tr on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:19AM (#20766465)
Ironically, President Xi was sent to a re-education camp when he was younger.
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