China's Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor
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Is there a global list of, well, shit going on. A heat map or an ordered backlog of things that need fixing in the world? Because if I missed this, what else don't I know
Executing and imprisoning opposition, illegal war in Yemen, the recent murder of a journalist are clearly not enough.
A comment about radicalization is made by an account more than 6 years old and having karma over 17000.
Labeling everyone who you disagree with as a paid propagandist is bad for public discourse.
As a German, the idea that we should put a whole religion in camps so beyond the pale, I think it's mainly bad for public discourse that this discussion was flagged. People should have their comments dissected until the cows come home, instead of not really having to own up to their words. This coy short flashing of this unwashed, ugly underbelly, that's the problem, that people who say A don't have to say B is the problem. They should have to sleep in the beds they declare fit for others.
It's pretty rich to bring up being offended, or radicalization for that matter, while people happily normalize putting a whole religion in concentration camps.
Really? What else can "It's the 50 cent party" mean?
The way stories critical of some, uhm, vaguely important developments in China regularly get flagged off the front page, while utter fluff about China winning some "race" or other being on the front page every second day is quite something. I don't know what the karma threshold is for flagging stories, but it sure isn't 17000. Of course, as that article notes:
> David Wertime of Foreign Policy argued that the narrative where a large army of paid Internet commentators are behind China's poor public dialogue with its critics is "Orwellian, yet strangely comforting". Rather, many of the Chinese netizens spreading nationalist sentiment online are not paid, but often mean what they say.
Either way, shill or useful idiot [1] or just independent nonthinker; it's still poor dialogue, as a result of poor reasoning and/or underdeveloped empathy, in defense of abominable practices -- and if someone can shrug off people being put into camps, they can shrug off being called names. Again, this didn't even happen here, but even if it had happened.. not that I find that constructive, of course it's also destructive and poor, talking about how "the shills are out" is totally useless and more toxic than shitty arguments I can at least disagree with -- but I still reject your claim that that'd be "offensive". Maybe for you, my priorities are vastly different.
I have no idea what you are talking about - the comment I was replying to made a statement that many other comments including the one about radicalization are the product of the 50 Cents Party. It's the only way it was talking about other comments.
Perhaps, your statement about 'poor reasoning' and 'poor dialog' applies to you as well and your sense of superiority is unwarranted.
Are you aware that the Latvians that used to happily help Nazies to round up Jews, today are forbidding Russians that live in their country to be taught in Russian? [0]
Does it concern you that your country and the rest of the EU look the other way?
Since Latvia became independent, the Russian population in it dropped from 900000 to less than 500000. The same happened to other ethnicities like Belorussians and Ukrainians.[1]
This slow motion ethnic cleansing happens right in the EU and nobody cares.
So, please, spare me of this talk from the hights of your moral high ground.
[0] https://www.euronews.com/2018/07/20/children-go-native-as-la...