Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lost_tourist 1086 days ago
Both are bad, the French aren't currently forcibly sterilizing, enslaving, and genociding a culture like the Chinese are doing with Uyghers, however. So there are different levels of bad.
2 comments

Not since the 1960s, at any rate.

(The legacy of colonialism in many larger European countries is ... pretty dark. France, Belgium, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, ...)

You are right, what's a little surveillance between friends. It's not like they're acting like the Chinese at all.