We love imprisoning people, blowing them up extra judicially, and deporting our veterans so we don’t have to support them, and sometimes we even blow them up extrajudicially after we deport them!
Comment on China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds
booty@hexbear.net 7 months ago
As of 2022, there were approximately 1.2 million victims of US government abduction being held on US soil. Just to put things into perspective.
AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 7 months ago
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Source? From my experience, US goes in the opposite direction. They keep inventing new reasons to kick people out. Their Title 42 is a perfect example of how they circumvent their Title 8 protections.
booty@hexbear.net 7 months ago
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Well, you and I use a different definition of abduction. While I’ll give you that some of those people are probably imprisoned wrongly, the majority are there because of their own actions. I wouldn’t fault China imprisoning someone for breaking their laws (even if I disagree with the law), I also don’t fault US for imprisoning people for breaking their laws. Treatment of those prisoners is a different question altogether.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Your definition of abduction apparently includes persuading people to go somewhere, so I think there are many lacks in terms of definitions here.
booty@hexbear.net 7 months ago
wahming@monyet.cc 7 months ago
Probably a false equivalence to the prisoner population, as if China doesn’t have any prisons and it wasn’t an entirely different issue
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 months ago
This is not a good comparison and isn’t necessary to show this report is bullshit. It isn’t even internally coherent:
They’re talking about China telling its citizens to return, which is nothing like kidnapping, but they’re calling it that anyway to gin up outrage. Between that and the telltale “Chinese Communist Party” mislabeling, they’re obviously not interested in doing any sort of objective analysis.
booty@hexbear.net 7 months ago
I did not even click the link because it’s obvious on its face that it’s bullshit anti-china propaganda in like 7 different ways. My comment is essentially a steel-man argument: Even if I assume that the liberal bullshit propaganda is 100% true, the US is still far worse in every way.
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Ah, makes sense. I’d look more at the U.S. drone assassination program and its (actual) kidnapping and torture operations. That’s the best comparison to what this report alleges.
booty@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Well, I don’t appreciate the implication that the time I was in the wrong place at the wrong time so I got forced into the back of a stranger’s car at gunpoint and driven 30 minutes to the stranger’s HQ where I was then locked in a room and interrogated doesn’t count as “abduction” or “kidnapping”
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 7 months ago
Yes, the CCP is notorious for being super friendly when persuading people. They would never ever threaten a person’s entire family to get people to step in line.
Grabbing a person off the streets and throwing them into a van isn’t the only method of kidnapping.
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Pg. 18 of the full report, linked in the post:
Not only is there no evidence of what you’re suggesting, but this anti-China group’s own report paints a pretty mundane picture.
Their strategy is to create an unfalsifiable position:
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 months ago
See this is the kind of sarcasm that only works if you’re in a space that has also uncritically accepted the output of the world’s biggest system of disinformation.
Also it’s CPC, not CCP. Dead giveaway as to where you get your scholarly reading.