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They got this surveillance in place and normalized rounding up a minority group and imprisoning humans indefinitely in re-eduction camps.
Clearly, nothing like the U.S.
I certainly don’t want to be defending the US in regard to the camps they have for deporting people, but there is a big difference between genocide and deportation. Don’t defend China with whataboutism.
I'm definitely not defending the Chinese government. I'm saying the tech companies that are currently helping to run the U.S. government, first helped the Chinese government create the surveillance network that was used to disproportionately target and round people up.
Now these same people are removing safeguards in the U.S., implementing live facial recognition surveillance networks, and a very similar pattern is starting to emerge.
People aren't just being deported, they're being held in private prisons indefinitely without due process, and it's making the same people that are creating these policies very wealthy.
Don't ask me to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and pretend I don't see what's happening right in front of me.
Did I ask you to do that? Or is that what you’ve chosen to hear?
I guess I just assumed that by accusing me of whataboutism you were implying that I was making an incorrect comparison. It seems like a glaringly obvious comparison that I would only be missing if I refused to see it.