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Chinese activist who mocked Xi Jinping flees to South Korea on jet ski, arrested
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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Well, that's nice. Glad they don't even consider sending him back or something. Hope he gets out of this well.
If this had happened in my country (UK) he'd be in a concentration camp by now.
Nice to know some countries are still civilised
Can you provide context and a source for that claim? Seems very sensational and hyperbolic
Edited to add: it was sensational and hyperbolic. They were referring to asylum centres to reduce the cost of housing asylum seekers. There are issues here but they are certainly not concentration camps - calling them such is at minimum very disrespectful to those who have suffered and died in actual concentration camps.
That’s literally what concentration camps are. Points where you “concentrate” a population you’re trying to control.
Outright murdering the people you have in them was a Nazi death camp thing, but the Brits were probably most famous for using them before that while attempting to suppress colonial rebellion.
My apartment in America is a concentration camp ☹️
You joke, buy people have been pointing that out for decades now. There is a reason the term Ghetto is still a common descriptor for these areas to this day...
"Ghettos" aren't just apartments; they're specifically segregated (and not by the minority's choice) and often substandard/impoverished/oppressed.
Trying to equate ghettos with mere high density is nothing but racist NIMBY bullshit.
If there apartment seems like a concentration camp then it is likely subsidized housing, which is statistically likely to be part of a ghetto.
I have nothing against high density, living... the top commentor said their apartment feels like a concentration camp, and my point is that it essentially could be.