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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by mpalmer on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:54PM (#32517197)
America got over imprisoning people for their ethnicity 80 years ago. And it's never systematically imprisoned or punished people because of their religious beliefs.

So I would say that's why it would be different in China.

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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by selfhoster11 on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:48AM (#32519123)
> America got over imprisoning people for their ethnicity 80 years ago.

Yeah, no. Minorities are still being disproportionately imprisoned.

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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by mpalmer on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:01AM (#32519933)
It's not the same thing. Not by a long shot. They are not in prison for the crime of being a minority. There are no US laws criminalizing behavior according to ethnicity or religion, nor could there be.

You are equating state-sanctioned cultural genocide vs an imperfect justice system with a racist legacy. I could go on, but I really don't need to.

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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by Doxin on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:43AM (#32518745)
> America got over imprisoning people for their ethnicity 80 years ago.

Is that actually true though? I don't mean this as a dig against the US, but I do feel like there's a disproportionate amount of specific ethnicities in prisons.

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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by mpalmer on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:05AM (#32519970)
They were not arrested for violating a law that targets their race, religion or any other constitutionally protected status.

That is what imprisoning people FOR their ethnicity means.

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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by JohnHaugeland on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:57AM (#32519511)
There's an actual holocaust happening right now and people need to try to compare
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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by garmanarnar on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:54PM (#32525328)
Sorry, you're so laughably wrong to the point of it being sad.
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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by mpalmer on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:49PM (#32527496)
What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Re:U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang by garmanarnar on Saturday August 20, 2022 @05:07PM (#32535140)
Amen
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