Comment by JumpCrisscross

> We define a historical era with things like red lining and lynching but they never stopped

No, but their frequency went down. Because we didn't stop talking about it and have independent courts that let the laws be enforced indpeendent of whether the President at the time thought it was a priority.

That's the contrast with China. And by the way, we're still talking about Tiananmen. We haven't even touched Mao and the Great Leap Forward or Xi's late-Soviet style corruption [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/world/asia/chinas-preside...