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Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1].

And we sit idly by.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth....

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This is some tired-ass whattaboutism shit[0]. Say what you will about the USA, but it is at least a flawed democracy. The Black Lives Matter movement is having a real impact. Can you imagine the Uighur equivalent in China?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Oh for sure, for sure. A country where there's systemic bias against a racial group in the judicial system, and a famous activist who was murdered 50 years ago is *totally* the same thing as an ongoing totalitarian system of high-tech cultural genocide and mass incarceration/'reeducation' of an ethnic group.

It's unbelievable that PRC partisans think this shameless nonsense will elicit anything but incredulous fury in anyone familiar with the facts and not, well, a PRC partisan.

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