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Re:The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity by benlumen on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:15AM (#24787282)
This is an incredibly low-information perspective that's got to go. China is an authoritarian single-party state where citizens have no liberty, no justice, no recourse. It couldn't be more different to the US.

The ongoing demoralization of the US like this is outright sister.

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Re:The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity by hobofan on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:23AM (#24787354)
The two-party (with not a huge amount of difference between them) system of the US, with a sitting president that is toying with the idea of staying president for life doesn't really paint a picture of "couldn't be more different" for an outsider.
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Re:The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:21AM (#24787815)
While I have no real clue about China, never been there, I don't believe that because:

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=china+highway+built+around+house&t...

and many more cases like

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate)#Nail_hou...

How is that possible at all with no liberty, no justice, no recourse ?

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Re:The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity by whoevercares on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:21AM (#24787338)
> where citizens have no liberty, no justice, no recourse

Disagree if you mean in general sense. You need to define it in far more details. I guess you mean “when their interest conflicts with the government”. Ask common Chinese citizens who live a non-activist life if they agreed that they are slaves and don’t have any of those rights

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