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Though he did clarify they don't have a worse police state than the US. He just both-sides it.

Edit - It's a law of hexbear that every discussion must turn into a struggle session. Especially if the discussion involves China.

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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    4 years ago

    Primarily because if their numbers are so much lower than the global average then they clearly aren't the problem. It's like complaining about a room that you aren't even in being too hot when the rest of the house is on fire.

    Also unless you live in mainland China, this isn't your problem (especially because almost everyone that doesn't lives in a place with a higher incarceration rate) and making it your problem is just carrying water for intervention narratives/human rights industrial complex.

    What you can do is fight against incarceration in your own nation, just as many activists in China are doing in China. Like seriously, imagine if China was threatening to invade it sanction the USA for its prison population. How would that play?

    • ItGoesItGoes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Or you know, we could just point out the fact that China is not a brutal police state, instead of assuming it is because, of course, it's China, so how could it not be, Western media told me so. This is mainly for @wtypstanaccount04.

      Seriously, as someone that lives in China, sometimes is disgusting to see the ignorance and racisim (yes, from a position of total ignorance without having lived in China, nor knowing how to speak Chinese, assuming that Chinese are always doing bad things is quite racist) displayed here.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, I'm a good old boy from the Eastern US lol. If I can get over my national chauvinism and understand that the order of magnitude of the issues at play here are incomparable, I can't think of any other demographic that should get a pass.

        Like holy shit people, most cops in China don't even carry weapons and they're a significantly smaller portion of the population. They're basically organized in the way the most radical US police reform proposals suggest.

        • ItGoesItGoes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Not most cops, all normal cops don't carry guns. Only the armed police can carry one, and they are quite uncommon. I have personally never seen one, and I live in the capital of China. Comparing China to the US in terms of police brutality, or police state is a big joke. Cops are a joke in China, and I mean it in the good sense.