Lastly, you are wildly off the mark regarding racialized drug policies in the US. Just two references:
https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/racial-dispar...
https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...
In an article about Chinese human rights abuses? At the most charitable, needing to make everything about the US is a form of political narcissism.
If you want to talk about US problems, post an on-topic article and talk about them there.
Calling this “political narcissism” is thinly veiled political solipsism. I’m amazed to read that here—do you just put your thoughts about the country in which you live in a little box, separate from everything else? It’s not like you can’t ignore these threads if you’d like; most of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.
It sounds to me like you have some deep-seated insecurities that I really don’t think you should have. I think you should address these before you go around whining about other people’s attempt to discuss things.
How condescending.
I have a deep-seated frustration that threads on this and similar topics become trainwreck full of derails and distraction. I'd be surprised if the majority of comments in this thread even discussed China or the situation there, rather than use it as a jumping off point derail to a US topic. As far as I can tell, I'm the only person to have used the term Xinjiang in this entire thread. This is in a post about Xinjiang.
Just to emphasize: this thread is such a trainwreck that it dropped like a rock off the front page. That does no one any good.
> It’s almost like this is one reason to read world news.
A better reason to read world news is to understand and discuss the world, not to compulsively engage in domestic topics.