• ghost_laptopOP
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      010 months ago

      Under no circumstanced whatsoever China imprisons as much people as the US, this without taking into account that the 13th Amendment basically legalises slavery as a punishment to crime, which is where the US gets a lot of free labour. A shining beacon of democracy.

      • @0b00101010@lemmy.ml
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        410 months ago

        Um, okay. That doesn’t really address my comment though.

        I’m not going to sit here and pretend the US doesn’t have an absurdly high per Capita incarceration rate or that there aren’t better examples of democratic governments in the world.

        I was just pointing out that it makes sense how low the “official” statistics are when they don’t include, for example, any of the Uighurs in reeducation camps.

        • ghost_laptopOP
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          -210 months ago

          Show me one first party credible source that gives real numbers about the people incarcerated in China in reeducation camps. There are none, they all point to Radio Free Asia and Adrian Senz. Were the terrorist/extremists attacks[1][2][3][4][5] carried out by Uyghur people controlled in the best way? No, but it is by far one of the best responses I’ve seen in the globe. Compare that to what the West has done. Reeducation camps have helped reduce extremism in the region to the point where we don’t see these attacks anymore, keep in mind it has been a tactic used in the region (the Middle East) employed by US forces since Afghanistan became a socialist country in order to destabilise the region, which later produced the whole 20 something years of occupation by US imperial forces in various countries, that to this day are still present.