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by throwaway292893 1855 days ago
Because they were terrorists, we didn't hold 3 million of them in gitmo simply because they were ethnic minorities.

Orders of magnitudes in difference.

Holding a few dozen suspected terrorists !== holding 3 million people (nearly an entire race)

You can justify there may be proof for those few alleged jihads. You cannot reasonably prove those 3 million people are all terrorists.

Where are the cries to shut down these camps like there were cries to shut down Gitmo?

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They were alleged terrorists. They were released after they were found to not be terrorists. Otherwise they would still be in captivity I suppose.
China's justification for holding Uyghurs is that they are terrorists, with a similar amount of evidence provided as for Guantanamo detainees.
Orders of magnitude. While both strain credulity, it is more plausible to take a government at its word for 300 people than for 3 million.

Plausibly it could be the case that there are 100 wrongly imprisoned people in Camp X-Ray without legal recourse... But equally plausibly there are at the very least 1,000,000 wrongly imprisoned people in the Uyghurstan concentration camps, with thousands added every day...

A good chunk of Twitter et al.

Where are you?