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by buth_lika 2878 days ago
> China is a sovereign nation and has every right to Govern itself the way it wants to.

Yeah, or "the US government respected Germany’s right to govern its own citizens" as it says here: https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma...

> They may not have the same system and freedom that the West is used to, but authoritarianism has been the norm in China for centuries.

Antisemitism had been pretty "normal" for 2 millenia in Europe. Would you go to a holocaust museum and roll your eyes at them, too? Mayne tell them the death camps in annexed territories were bad, but that all the stuff from 1933 to 1939 should be removed, because it was just internal politics and making a judgement about that just shows how little one knows.

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

Can you even imagine how many of those were put up in response to mere internal politics? You should clear up how none of that was bad, would save a lot of money on maintaining exhibits, and archiving survivor testomies and all that.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-p...

> More than half the people we met along the way during our journey spoke of family members or acquaintances who were "sent to school." One driver in Hotan talked about his 72-year-old grandfather. A person in Urumqi told the story of his daughter's professor. An airplane passenger spoke of his best friend.

I guess they forgot to mention that authoritarianism has been the norm in China for centuries, so being tortured or a loved one being disappeared and killed doesn't really bother them. They have a "different system and freedom", after all. As does anyone who moves there, anyone the secret police gets their paws on, even internationally. When they get locked up and murdered, they don't really feel it the same way you or I do. When they have families and friendships, it's not like they're actually sad when that ends. They don't suppress showing pain they feel, they simply don't feel it in the first place.

It's all good, nothing to see here. Just the normal day to day business of being a monster.