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by xkcd-sucks 2639 days ago
The point here is to evoke comparison with 1930s Germany, which expanded into neighboring territory and systematically imprisioned minorities. Hopefully China changes direction before it becomes 1940s Germany
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This is a ridiculous comparison. China is not expanding and does not systematically imprison minorities (and as you know the holocaust is in another league altogether).

The point of my previous comment is also to avoid such comparisons that are unhelpful, to say the least. Don't overuse those terms (holocaust, nazi, etc)

China is looking to expand. China already took Tibet. It claims Taiwan. Now, it’s making audacious claims over the South China Sea - even going so far as to build artificial islands to cement their claims.
They even claim parts of India as well
> does not systematically imprison minorities

What about these ones?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

using the term "holocaust" is a comparison? Nobody has a monopoly on that term.
Why do you believe 1940's Germany is worse than China? 2.5 million people already died as a direct result from Mao's Great Leap Forward, with another 40 million (!) dying from famine during that same period, caused by said cultural revolution.

Nazi Germany was not the greatest loss of life by a government.

> Nazi Germany was not the greatest loss of life by a government.

But it is the government that's become nearly synonymous with human rights violations (in the West, at least).

You can also compare 1940s Russia which conquered eastern Europe and put most of Asia under its influence. Stalin starved and slaughtered millions.