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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (20 children)

As someone that supports Palestine I think my odds are significantly less likely of getting black bagged in China than in the US.

US just making people disappear without due-process right now but western brain still thinks "China is the real dystopia"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (18 children)

In the US making people disappear without due process is news, in China it's a daily occurrence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Yeah. But the difference in China is the people that get disappeared are billionaires that started criticisming the government too much. Id rather we disappear some billionaires here. Instead of brown people protesting a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She didn't disappear mate. She's made several public appearances since. Literally read the article. She just disappeared from social media. There is no evidence she was "taken".

Was she censored heavily upon making accusations? Absolutely. But censored is not "being disappeared". Do you think this is the same as taking people to a prison in another country with zero due process?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

She made a few public appearances, that means she's on indefinite house arrest or something similar. Could be worse of course, this is indeed not the best example.

Some better examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_and_Michael_Kovrig

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