Uyghur kids detail abuse at China's boarding schools in Xinjiang

Re:Uyghur kids detail abuse at China's boarding schools in X... by tdeck on Friday February 04, 2022 @02:23PM (#30211636)

I don't have a comment about the "ghosts" specifically, but this is what I was referring to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_sch...

"During a peaceful period" seems like a bit of a built-in excuse for the US when it was causing conflict with indigenous people by colonizing them and displacing them from their land.

> In any case I don't think it's fair to compare present crimes of a country with past crimes of another.

Why not? If country A committed an atrocity decades ago that largely achieved its objective for the dominant group, and that country still hasn't really atoned for it, it's no surprise that country B would try the same tactics now when they're looking to commit a cultural genocide.

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Re:Uyghur kids detail abuse at China's boarding schools in X... by walkhour on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:59AM (#30218876)

Thank you for the link.

I agree there are similarities in so far both countries committed heinous crimes. However that 150 year hindsight China has is not something that should be overlooked, in fact, given identical crimes, I can't think of a worse aggravator.

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