What a horrible person.
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Cancel culture.
Now they’ll have to find another homicidal sadist.
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I put it with injustice systems because of this discussion.
The comparison that is most relevant to what is happening in China is the US expansion to the West, and probably Canada as well. It begins with the desire to expand American economic growth, and to do that in the nineteenth century meant the United States had to control more land, develop it, and settle it. In that process, indigenous peoples were viewed as at best superfluous and at worst an obstacle that had to be removed.
The comparison that is most relevant to what is happening in China is the US expansion to the West, and probably Canada as well.
Starting in the 1820s you had the policy of Indian removal, which became increasingly draconian throughout the rest of the nineteenth century — to the point where you saw the United States trying to break the solidarity of Native American nations, employing all kinds of forced assimilation measures, and eventually quarantining them onto reservations.
When I was writing my book and looking at what was happening to the Uyghurs, I saw so many parallels, even in tactics. The attempt to break solidarity and identity seemed to be central to what the Chinese government was doing. There was also embedded in a lot of these policies a desire to remove people from their homeland and thin out their demographic footprint.
The residential boarding schools and the residential labor programs are very similar to policies imposed on Native Americans in nineteenth-century America. There’s a famous quote from the director of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
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It’s about bloody time this got some traction. Information about this guy teaching this crap to cops has been out in the wild for ages.
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The political system itself brings down the person most likely to be able to rise above:
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It should now be free to read-- but I’ve never used the gift link option before.
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Chicago?
I thought it’s been Detroit since 1973. And what about Baltimore?
Forgive me, I feel too lazy right now to sign up for a free account to read a limited amount of articles.
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Over 80 percent of readers correctly answered that there was no relationship, the highest accuracy rate for readers of any question in the quiz.
That says something, but is understated.
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Detroit’s not even mentioned.
I’m not sure how to feel about that.
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Gee, is he a member of any of those child-teen-saving organizations? I’m guessing not.
They gonna have trouble findin’ jobs and becoming taxpayers, did he ever think of that? And when they can vote, I’ll bet it won’t be for his party.
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