• popcap200@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Having the red line as genocide, or as slavery from the buying and selling of people feels like a pretty safe line to have. Blocking goods is a very serious move in international relations.

    The US justice system is not inherently racist, it’s systematically racist, which isn’t good, but is a different thing. Nearly every person in the US prison system is there because they committed a crime. The people in Xinjiang did nothing but have the wrong culture and skin color. It’s still a false equivalency.

    Anyone can involve themselves and investigate the US court system, they can file complaints, they can sue for unfair treatment etc. International monitors are barred from Xinjiang.

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      5 months ago

      Nearly every person in the US prison system is there because they committed a crime.

      Many of them low-level crimes that wouldn’t exist without the pointless drug war and far more often people of color for those crimes than white people who do the same thing. In fact, white people are far less likely to be convicted for a crime of any sort compared to people of color. I’d call that inherent.

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      5 months ago

      Our prisoners: bad, evil, guilty

      Their prisoners: heroic, moral, innocent.

      • of course you belive this and of course the Chinese believe it.