China has active concen— er, “reeducation camps” for specific religious minorities. Others are required to replace photos of their icon with photos of Xi Jinping.
The man implemented social credit scores and will warn neighbors of your bad behavior, to include encouraging shunning you. Dropping the score low enough is enough to get you banned from trains and planes.
Political dissidents, highly respected lawmakers, and billionaires can disappear from public at the pleasure of the president.
I sincerely hope you were simply speaking out of ignorance.
> China has active concen— er, “reeducation camps” for specific religious minorities.
"Religious minority" is one way of framing it. "Political movement that spreads notions repugnant to all decent people" would be another. Every developed country has cult deprogramming and support efforts, and that's usually seen as a good thing.
> The man implemented social credit scores and will warn neighbors of your bad behavior, to include encouraging shunning you. Dropping the score low enough is enough to get you banned from trains and planes.
Whereas the US keeps their no-fly list secret and requires you to figure out people's credit score from context, so that's better? Any amount of antisocial behaviour should be ok as long as you made enough money from it?
> Political dissidents, highly respected lawmakers, and billionaires can disappear from public at the pleasure of the president.
Whereas in the US only nobodies get black-vanned at protests, and the CIA torture flights are only for foreigners, so that's better?
> Political movement that spreads notions repugnant to all decent people
Exactly, specifically, what is so repugnant to “all decent people” about being Uighur?
> Whereas the US keeps their no-fly list secret and requires you to figure out people's credit score from context, so that's better?
The US’s. Is this a serious question? Of course it’s the US. It’s the US version a hundred times over. And yes, people can act how they want. I don’t particularly give a shit how you or daddy Xi think I should behave.
> Whereas in the US only nobodies get black-vanned at protests, and the CIA torture flights are only for foreigners, so that's better?
Once again, I cannot tell if this is a joke or not. Yes, of course this is better. I don’t want my government actively suppressing real citizens like you do. I really do not care if they said Xi was fat, or hurt your feelings, or practiced a religion that makes you cry incessantly. In the real world, you need to get along with people you don’t like - you can’t just sterilize them in a camp. Xi is a dipshit.
> Exactly, specifically, what is so repugnant to “all decent people” about being Uighur?
Nothing about being Uighur. Plenty of the political content of Islam.
> I don’t want my government actively suppressing real citizens like you do.
I find the focus on citizens weird, and I think it weakens a lot of US arguments. I'm not a citizen of either country, which seems to mean that China will leave me alone whereas the US considers it fine to do whatever they like to me.
The man implemented social credit scores and will warn neighbors of your bad behavior, to include encouraging shunning you. Dropping the score low enough is enough to get you banned from trains and planes.
Political dissidents, highly respected lawmakers, and billionaires can disappear from public at the pleasure of the president.
I sincerely hope you were simply speaking out of ignorance.