• culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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    If Xianjang is ‘cultural genocide’ according to the state dept leftists, wtf is this shit?

    At the very least they should admit that China is doing a much better job at running deradicalization programs with actual funding and resources compared to this.

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    fuck the lady in the tweet for equivocating active ISIS ideologues and the general constellation of normal civilians that for one reason or another surrounded them. how many of the people in these camps just went from being exploited by ISIS to being exploited by amerikkka? the cnn banner says that this is families in general. are they terror babies becky?

    this is the same bird-brained abuse of normal people that radicalized members of the Taliban and ISIS and pretty much every other Wahabist group ever.

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    The actual solution to this is the Xinjiang model.

    I partially wonder if the massive propaganda campaign against it was partly because the US don’t want political pressure to adopt something that actually rehabilitates people. The ideology is a useful tool to unleash when it benefits them, ending it completely would therefore be viewed as detrimental to US interests.

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        The best resource is this as it links to a shit tonne of resources throughout: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang

        This piece written in 2019 (removed since) is the best short summary writeup: https://archive.is/q1dnh

        If you want a super super tl;dr: The model is to improve people’s lives, extremism feeds off of poverty and poor outlooks, improving infrastructure, teaching languages and skills, raising the standards of living, these things all function to remove the material conditions that allow radical extremist behaviour to foster. The model was marxist theory in purist essence - change the material conditions. Xinjiang went from having dozens and dozens of actually very serious attacks per year (gunmen attacking railway stations, bombings and that kind of thing) to nothing within the space of a few years starting with the initial crackdowns and surveillance followed by the education program and infrastructure. One thing that libs always miss out with the mandatory school centres which is the most controversial part of it all is that these things weren’t prisons, it was mandatory attendance and sleeping over Mon-Fri, they were free to go home on weekends.

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    Is this harm reduction? How can you be sure your doing harm reduction if you didn’t even know something like THIS was happening?

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      This is the kind of stuff that happens whether a (D) or ® is in office. I don’t really believe in a “deep state” in the way that I think a cabal of weirdos get together to sacrifice goats and twiddle their moustaches, but this is the closest thing there is to a deep state. The Eric Princes of the world, the CIA, and so on are the actual project that this country is carrying out. It’s been a generational project, and the politicians we get to see are begging for table scraps from the people that actually get the bag.

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        The phrase was originally coined to refer to all the career bureaucrats and functionaries that persist through administration after administration due to being “apolitical”, actually materially enacting policies or serving as consultants and sources of information for formal leaders. So yes, that is literally what the “deep state” is and what it meant before it got appropriated and warped by weirdo reactionaries who needed a new word for “illuminati” after that got too commonly recognized as nonsense.

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      You don’t have to know what the current administration is you can simply convince yourself any alternative would be inherently worse

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    From the New Yorker:

    More than half the population are children, the majority of whom are younger than twelve. Dozens of babies are born each month. All the residents are under indefinite detention, as no plans have apparently been made to prosecute any of them—imagine if Guantánamo were the size of a city, and its inmates were mostly women and children. The United Nations has called Al-Hol a “blight on the conscience of humanity.”

    . . .

    Jihan met Da’ad, who was also from Homs. Her family, which was not linked to isis, had fled regime air strikes for Raqqa, then kept moving east to escape U.S. bombs. One day, she and her children travelled to visit her parents; they returned home to find that a coalition air strike had blown up their house. Seventeen people were killed, among them her husband and her in-laws. Now she lives in a tent with her daughters, including a nine-year-old who has a blood disorder and requires transfusions to stay alive. Transfusions are performed at a hospital outside the camp, but an emergency furlough from the authorities is maddeningly difficult to obtain, and Da’ad, who works at a grocery in the souk, can’t always afford the treatments. She has appealed to neighbors and to aid organizations in the camp, without success. “I can’t watch my child withering away in front of me day after day,” she said. “This is a prison, not a camp. I don’t know what crime my daughter committed.”

    Local authorities did not comment on conditions in the camp. The U.S. State Department said in a statement that the “humanitarian needs at Al-Hol camp are vast and the international response is underfunded,” and noted that the U.S. is “committed to helping the international community address this shared security and humanitarian challenge.”

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    i am actually going to go insane that they put a sentence about it being where all the women and children got imprisoned after isis right before claiming that it’s where the ideology lives on.

    PICK A GODDAMN LANE CNN HOLY FUCKING SHIT

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      here the ideology of isis lives on

      and as they’re saying it they show footage of very young children throwing stones at their camera crew. real manufacturing consent hours. they’re basically just priming their audience to think that yes, this might be an unfortunate situation, but it’s a necessary one.

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      Why wouldn’t it live on frankly, this systematic separation of children from their mothers is like one of the classic things that radical islamic groups claim is happening in the west, and which western states claim is pure propaganda and conspiracy theory.

      It’s also something the west claims is genocide when they accuse Russia of kidnapping Ukranian children.

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    Anything but re-education. Wouldn’t want to be like China. Those awful commies who re-educate extremists and put them through trade school. BUT AT WHAT COST?