> Because if you criticise the Chinese government you disappear for a few months at best. If you’re unlucky you’re never seen again.
Wasn't too long ago that being considered too far on the left in the US was a professional and social death sentence.
Was neither too long ago that anybody who opposed illegal wars of aggression, torture, and state-sponsored assassinations, was deemed a "treacherous terrorist supporter" who might as well have flown the planes into the towers themselves, the earlier versions of that involved sending armed soldiers to violently break up peaceful student protesters ala Kent State.
Heck, "race riots" are a regular thing in the US to this day, yet somehow not considered political, nor the countless black activists that were jailed, left to live in exile, or straight up assassinated in the US [0], somehow none of that is considered "political" [1].
Add in the reality how the US has not just the biggest prison population, but also the highest incarceration rate on the planet, and it comes across as a bit tone-deaf to constantly evoke how in the "evil not US countries" people are allegedly getting vanished in droves, but never ever in the US [2].
If foreigners looked at us the way we describe them (insert X bogeyman) and the fact that we have the worlds largest concentration camp of black men ever known to mankind.... Now what would they call that.... And then we employ them as prison labor or putting out dangerous fires..... Now what we call that..... We have laws that severely criminalize things that blacks do (crack consumption in the 90s) and not really for whites (cocaine consumption)....and the list goes on and on.... we call lesser things in other countries ethnic genocide etc.... Our State Department loves wagging the finger at other countries for lesser things that we do systematically domestically like civil forfeiture on blacks... Our sanctimonious grandstanding op-eds call such things in other countries as autocratic, authoritarian, dictatorship, ethnic genocide, strongman leadership, fascism and so on.... Look forward to the downvotes for stating the obvious....
Wasn't too long ago that being considered too far on the left in the US was a professional and social death sentence.
Was neither too long ago that anybody who opposed illegal wars of aggression, torture, and state-sponsored assassinations, was deemed a "treacherous terrorist supporter" who might as well have flown the planes into the towers themselves, the earlier versions of that involved sending armed soldiers to violently break up peaceful student protesters ala Kent State.
Heck, "race riots" are a regular thing in the US to this day, yet somehow not considered political, nor the countless black activists that were jailed, left to live in exile, or straight up assassinated in the US [0], somehow none of that is considered "political" [1].
Add in the reality how the US has not just the biggest prison population, but also the highest incarceration rate on the planet, and it comes across as a bit tone-deaf to constantly evoke how in the "evil not US countries" people are allegedly getting vanished in droves, but never ever in the US [2].
[0] https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/rakem-balogun-...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/more-than-80-percent-of-the-...