Let's see what hexbear has to say about this. Have your mental gymnastics score cards at the ready.
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They'll say nothing first and, if pushed, "but what about Guantanamo?"
Tankies are so predictable.
Such bs.
Can't USA and China both have problems? I don't get why it's always one or the other. Guess it helps not living in either.
I have no problem admitting Guantanamo, and all the other horrific shit that America did in South America, the Middle East, and around the world.
Tankies on the other hand actively defend Chinese atrocities and failing that, use American atrocities to deflect. Just watch hexbear/lemmygrad tankies swarm any topic even loosely related to the Tiananmen Square Massacre with revisionist bullshit. Example: https://lemmy.zip/post/3180475
We are not the same.
All countries have their share of problems, but China seems to be actively looking for more of them.
Mainstream media should also come up at some point after letting them know whataboutism isn't a personality.
Can you imagine being sentenced to life in a reeducation camp? Hexbear, lemmygrad, and CTH must be frothing at the mouth over how much they would love that.
according to my experience with Chapotraphouse this is somehow the US's fault.
I said it before, and I'll say it again:
F U C K C H I N A
This is widespread genocide.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls "re-education camps".
"The sentencing of Professor Rahile Dawut is a cruel tragedy, a great loss for the Uyghur people, and for all who treasure academic freedom," said John Kamm, executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation.
Ms Dawut's secret trial in December 2018 in a Xinjiang court followed her arrest the previous year for "splittism", a crime of endangering state security.
Ms Dawut is an expert on Uyghur folklore and traditions and had been teaching at Xinjiang University College of Humanities before her arrest.
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday she had "no information" on Ms Dawut's case, according to AP.
A series of police files obtained by the BBC in 2022 revealed details of China's use of "re-education camps" and described the routine use of armed officers and the existence of a shoot-to-kill policy for those trying to escape.
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