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Luckily we get the unfettered propaganda pipeline of hostile american billionaires instead.



American billionares are surely much worse than totalitarian state running internment camps.


American billionaires have a much more direct impact on my life than totalitarian states halfway across the globe.

Also, not to defend the CCP, but America has more prisoners than any other country, China included, and dramatically more per capita.


America is also an incredibly diverse and rich country.


There's a huge difference between internment camps designed to oppress and reeducate Uighur Muslims, and regular prisons. These are not the same thing at all.


Being real, I don't think there's as big a difference as you think. Read "The New Jim Crow", or look at anything BLM was mad about, policing in the US is extremely racialized.


I don't disagree that there's a big problem with the way Black people are treated by police and the criminal justice system in the US. In fact I think the prison system we currently have is pretty terrible and I want to see it reformed, having had three close (white) family members who've been in prison/jailed. I'm just pointing out that there's a big difference between a justice system that's systemically biased against a certain race, and a system that's explicitly put in place to target a certain race.




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