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If America has violated any human rights for any extended period, it was slavery that we not only abolished over 1 1/2 centuries ago, but that was a time when our country was still maturing, growing and evolving... We have long since matured socially.
Slavery is a good example... Followed by Jim Crow laws... A bit more recent...
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While there was temporary internment of Japanese US citizens after Pearl Harbor, we have never made a practice of sending people to "re-education" camps because of their religious beliefs, harvesting their organs (now, maybe if they had a decent used piano) and we've never sent people to forced labor camps for expressing beliefs that disagreed with the government's doctrine.
Except for reservations... Entire populations were displaced and forced to live on them...
No forced harvesting of organs... I'll give you that... You guys do have the largest prison population in the world though...
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China's been around for many more centuries than America has and has had that much more time to evolve socially, but hasn't.
Firstly, the PRC is 71 years old... Somewhat younger than America..
But that's beside the point... This is that arrogance I was talking about earlier... America (and the rest of the West) does not get to claim moral superiority because other societies have different values than them... China as a society has many values that differ from the west... This doesn't make them superior or inferior..
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There's no way you can begin to compare the harshness of China's governance or the vast gulf between the liberty enjoyed by Chinese citizens and that enjoyed by US citizens.
Nor did I attempt to...
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Also, it's very likely that we on the outside have better access to information on some of the less civilized practices of the CCP than they permit you to obtain on the inside. I already know you can't access outside publications online that the Chinese government wants censored.
I can access outside publications just fine thank you... I have mentioned this numerous times...
It is far more likely that due to my having firsthand experience I can better spot inaccuracies that the majority of Americans are simply unable to distinguish...