Comment by Kirby64

11 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

Literally forced labor camps. Of course, the PRC denies these allegations, but it certainly seems like there's some forced labor due to the numerous reports across many years of a variety of forced labor operations from these camps.

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makeitshine  11 days ago

The US has forced prison labor. We can talk about how bad the Chinese government is, but their economy is not built on forced labor anymore than the US is built on prison labor.

  • Kirby64  11 days ago

    I also think any form of forced work in the US prison system is pretty awful, but don’t try to equivocate Chinese “reeducation” camps with regular prison. Not anywhere close to the same thing.

    • ta20240528  11 days ago

      Have you asked any of the inmates at the Angola "working farm" in Louisiana?

      Apparently 63% are serving life terms, 27% more than 20 years.

      Doesn't seem worse than China's attempt to iron out a seditious, violent sub-culture that was actually detonating bombs amongst civilians? Most seem to have closed, so the maximum term < 10 years.

      Neither are good ideas IMHO - but one way worse than the other? Come now.

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