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bazookabill@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Chinese activist who mocked Xi Jinping flees to South Korea on jet ski, arrested

www.indiatoday.in

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Chinese activist who mocked Xi Jinping flees to South Korea on jet ski, arrested

www.indiatoday.in

bazookabill@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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The jet-ski escapee is Chinese rights activist Kwon Pyong. He had posted pictures on social media mocking Chinese President Xi Jinping, and spent time in jail in China for subversion.
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    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.

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      https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/floating-prison-uks-another-controversial-policy-of-keeping-asylum-seekers-on-floating-barge/2951114

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      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.

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