According to reports from media outlets in different countries, China has built large scale concentration camps specifically for an ethnic minority group (Muslim Uighurs). The Chinese government monitors the ethnic group, tracks their movements using smart phones and facial recognition, and imprisons huge numbers (between 1 - 3 million) in the concentration camps. The state calls them re-education camps or training schools.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-in-concentration-camps-us-says-idUSKCN1S925K
https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/prominent-uighur-writer-dies-chinese-internment-camp
https://www.dw.com/en/former-muslim-prisoner-in-china-describes-xinjiang-detention/av-47865162
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkHcZ5IwjU
I'm honestly shocked by how little I hear about this. Does anyone care?
I'll bet this is what it was like as the world watched the first Jewish Germans get detained in concentration camps in the 1930s. People elsewhere in the world shrug, partly because it's far away, and partly because they dislike the people who are suffering. Antisemitism was rampant in both the US and Canada in the 1930s and the countries did not want to accept Jews. Similarly today, there is widespread anti-Muslim sentiment and racism expressed in US and Europe... everywhere from the US President himself, to popular media outlets (Fox News) and European political parties.
Obviously, Nazi atrocities towards Jews were far more severe, but there's still a parallel here. It's given me some insight into how people turned their backs on Jewish suffering in Europe. One looks back after several decades and says "how could people not have done something" but I think it's pretty clear how this happens.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-in-concentration-camps-us-says-idUSKCN1S925K
https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/prominent-uighur-writer-dies-chinese-internment-camp
https://www.dw.com/en/former-muslim-prisoner-in-china-describes-xinjiang-detention/av-47865162
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkHcZ5IwjU
I'm honestly shocked by how little I hear about this. Does anyone care?
I'll bet this is what it was like as the world watched the first Jewish Germans get detained in concentration camps in the 1930s. People elsewhere in the world shrug, partly because it's far away, and partly because they dislike the people who are suffering. Antisemitism was rampant in both the US and Canada in the 1930s and the countries did not want to accept Jews. Similarly today, there is widespread anti-Muslim sentiment and racism expressed in US and Europe... everywhere from the US President himself, to popular media outlets (Fox News) and European political parties.
Obviously, Nazi atrocities towards Jews were far more severe, but there's still a parallel here. It's given me some insight into how people turned their backs on Jewish suffering in Europe. One looks back after several decades and says "how could people not have done something" but I think it's pretty clear how this happens.