Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

Re:Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinji... by free_rms on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:19AM (#24301323)

Yes, and you've stripped all of the ideology and mania out of it by referencing it in this context. OP who wrote that excellent post would have known better.

Are Uyghurs being sent out into the farmlands to toil on stupid projects as part of a hyper-idealistic, "we're all workers" message? No, none of that, in any way. They're indoors, and the message has nothing to do with hammers or sickles.

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Re:Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinji... by fspeech on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:31AM (#24301652)

I am saying that the current generation of leaders may not find the idea of camps abhorrent. Xi was himself a sent-down youth. He probably did not like it at the time but he hasn't displayed any strong resentment of it either.

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Re:Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinji... by free_rms on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:45AM (#24305488)

National leaders, everywhere, find very little abhorrent. They're in the business of abhorrence in the name of maintaining national power.

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