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Originally Posted by 81MC
If this is true, what does that say about the actual people? A nation full of citizens who are contented with their choice of junk that they will ignore egregious human rights violations against millions of their own?
Like, imagine how easy it would be to get rid of those pesky drug abusers and racial tensions in our lives if we were all okay with just rounding up the addicts and indigenous and detaining them in the NWT.
I’m sure it’s more complex than a few paragraphs on a forum. But I’m not willing to excuse a society that will turn its head away from things like the “the repression and systematic abuses of 13 million” minorities on a routine basis because they can buy things.
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You have to remember it is a nation of citizens who can in many cases still remember when they had to choose which child got food and which one was left to starve, a nation of citizens who's grandparents can tell them stories of being raped by the Japanese, a nation of citizens that can probably still tell their kids 'I remember the first time I ever saw a car/TV/fridge' as in they were old enough and these things were rare enough it was a memorable event.
To go from that to where China is now in the space of a generation is remarkable, I was born in'1961 when China was going through its last great famine, somewhere between 30 and 40 million starved to death, for that to happen the whole country was in N Korea like malnutrition, of course they are consumers and content with a government that can provide them with what to them are the riches of Croesus