The Great Cannon has been deployed again

Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by slg on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:39AM (#21723420)

That is quite a big "per se" there. My point is there is a huge distinction between concentration camps and death camps. The Nazis progressed from one to the other, but that is not a guarantee (this is where that US reference might come into play). There is a large difference between "let's segregate these people" to "let's kill all of them" and we shouldn't blur the lines between either the Nazi's decision to make that leap or China's decision to as of yet not.

I wouldn't have felt the need to make my comment if the original comment was modified with "early Holocaust" rather equating it to the entire thing which inherently includes and is often more synonymous with the death camps.

Also what China is doing is not in the magnitude of the Nazis.

I am not saying any of this to defend China. I just want these things clear because this is the type of rhetoric that is often used by Holocaust deniers.

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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by akiselev on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:11PM (#21726502)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these aren't segregation centers. There's a big difference between "let's segregate these people" and "let's re-educate these people." China seems to be well into the re-education process and while they may not have trains headed to death camps, I think it's more accurate to say that they are closer to those death camps than they are to Jim Crowe laws, having already surpassed cases like re-education boarding schools [1] which AFAIK are considered genocide by international law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schoo...

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