The purpose of the program was to create people who can get jobs and be integrated into the economy. Making someone spend months doing hard labor isn’t useful for decreasing terrorism and increasing economic development.
So it sounds like they were being over policed
Yes
didn’t really personally know the extent of it
They mostly chalked it up to the crime and terrorism. They didn’t have much a response to “but it’s safe now, why are there still so many cops”.
Okay so they stopped it? Does that mean I’m supposed to go back to trusting the government? How do you square that?
Nobody said you should trust the Chinese government, I said you should not trust the US government or help them justify hostile action against foreign countries.
The Uhygur people have their own struggles, that are entirely alien to the stories cooked up in western media.
I got that figure from someone defending China over it iirc so I’m guessing it’s accurate if you don’t know offhand.
That’s 1 in 20 Uhygurs, I feel like it would have had a more pronounced effect and at that scale, I wouldn’t run into people who seemed to have no idea it happened.
The purpose of the program was to create people who can get jobs and be integrated into the economy. Making someone spend months doing hard labor isn’t useful for decreasing terrorism and increasing economic development.
Yes
They mostly chalked it up to the crime and terrorism. They didn’t have much a response to “but it’s safe now, why are there still so many cops”.
Nobody said you should trust the Chinese government, I said you should not trust the US government or help them justify hostile action against foreign countries.
The Uhygur people have their own struggles, that are entirely alien to the stories cooked up in western media.
That’s 1 in 20 Uhygurs, I feel like it would have had a more pronounced effect and at that scale, I wouldn’t run into people who seemed to have no idea it happened.
I’m pretty confident that didn’t happen.