Rounding up the Muslims

[George K]

For all the bluster that American companies are spewing about "human rights" (Yeah, NBA, Apple, Nike), they remain silent on some real genocide.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims?bfsource=relatedmanual

China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years, dramatically escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even as it publicly claimed the detainees had all been set free. The construction of these purpose-built, high-security camps — some capable of housing tens of thousands of people — signals a radical shift away from the country’s previous makeshift use of public buildings, like schools and retirement homes, to a vast and permanent infrastructure for mass detention.

In the most extensive investigation of China’s internment camp system ever done using publicly available satellite images, coupled with dozens of interviews with former detainees, BuzzFeed News identified more than 260 structures built since 2017 and bearing the hallmarks of fortified detention compounds. There is at least one in nearly every county in the far-west region of Xinjiang. During that time, the investigation shows, China has established a sprawling system to detain and incarcerate hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities, in what is already the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II.

These forbidding facilities — including several built or significantly expanded within the last year — are part of the government’s unprecedented campaign of mass detention of more than a million people, which began in late 2016. That year Chen Quanguo, the region’s top official and Communist Party boss, whom the US recently sanctioned over human rights abuses, also put Muslim minorities — more than half the region’s population of about 25 million — under perpetual surveillance via facial recognition cameras, cellphone tracking, checkpoints, and heavy-handed human policing. They are also subject to many other abuses, ranging from sterilization to forced labor.

To detain thousands of people in short order, the government repurposed old schools and other buildings. Then, as the number of detainees swelled, in 2018 the government began building new facilities with far greater security measures and more permanent architectural features, such as heavy concrete walls and guard towers, the BuzzFeed News analysis shows. Prisons often take years to build, but some of these new compounds took less than six months, according to historical satellite data. The government has also added more factories within camp and prison compounds during that time, suggesting the expansion of forced labor within the region. Construction was still ongoing as of this month.

[Aqua Letifer]

The Religion of Peace oh wait wrong thread.

China is not our ally.

[Copper]

The Chinese invented gun powder

First guns and now Wu-flu

[Doctor Phibes]

Finally the Chinese do something the far right can get behind. There’s something for everyone under Communism!

[Larry]

I think the US should round up everyone feigning a fake British accent. Especially that guy with the terrible fake accent in all those "as seen on tv" commercials...

[George K]

[Rainman]

@Larry said in Rounding up the Muslims:

I think the US should round up everyone feigning a fake British accent. Especially that guy with the terrible fake accent in all those "as seen on tv" commercials...

That's funny, cause it's so often true. I'd include our local PBS classical music station.
For some reason, that British accent implies sophistication.
But, I do like the sound of that accent. Just seems so profound compared to other accents.

[George K]

@Rainman said in Rounding up the Muslims:

That's funny, cause it's so often true. I'd include our local PBS classical music station.
For some reason, that British accent implies sophistication.
But, I do like the sound of that accent. Just seems so profound compared to other accents.

Thanks for saying that. It's bothered me for a while.

I regularly attend ...ahem, I used to regularly attend several live concert venues in the Chicago area.

1. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. The Elgin Symphony Orchestra
3. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
4. The Lyric Opera of Chicago (only about 4 times)

All of them have a pre-recorded statement before the performance which say, more or less, "Thank you for attending ... blah, blah, blah..., please disable electronic devices....blah, blah, blah...Enjoy the performance."

The Lyric uses someone who has a British accent.

Always found it pretentious.

[Rainman]

For pickup truck TV commercials, the accent is always the Texas drawl. Annoying, and somehow condescending.
Actually, only domestic pickup trucks Ford/Chevy, the Japanese commercials don't stoop to some sort of overly emphasized twang.

For the symphony orchestras you mentioned, it would be interesting to hear what people think, if a southern drawl announced,
"Y'all stick yo gadgets where the sun don't shine."

[George K]

@Rainman said in Rounding up the Muslims:

"Y'all stick yo gadgets where the sun don't shine."

That made me spit (cheap) Scotch everywhere.

But, your point is a good one.

[bachophile]

But which British accent?

Link to video

[taiwan_girl]

@bachophile That was interesting, but hard for me to tell the difference. LOL

(I think this is bias, but many people say that Taiwanese have the best accent when speaking Chinese. LOL)

[Doctor Phibes]

@Rainman said in Rounding up the Muslims:

@Larry said in Rounding up the Muslims:

I think the US should round up everyone feigning a fake British accent. Especially that guy with the terrible fake accent in all those "as seen on tv" commercials...

That's funny, cause it's so often true. I'd include our local PBS classical music station.
For some reason, that British accent implies sophistication.
But, I do like the sound of that accent. Just seems so profound compared to other accents.

I sound dead fucking sophisticated. Just ask anyone.

[Doctor Phibes]

@bachophile said in Rounding up the Muslims:

But which British accent?

Link to video

I have to say, some of those are shockingly bad.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Rounding up the Muslims:

@bachophile said in Rounding up the Muslims:

But which British accent?

Link to video

I have to say, some of those are shockingly bad.

"Bad" as in "poorly done," or "bad" as in "yeah, that's how bad they really sound?"

[Doctor Phibes]

Bad as in poorly done. 'Shockingly bad' is really over-stating it, some of them are ok, but she's not nearly as good at them as she thinks.

Not that I'd do any better, of course, far from it - but I'm not posting on YouTube

[Larry]

I love true Irish accents.

[Doctor Phibes]

I've got a cousin from Northern Ireland, and my sister in law is from Dublin. It's fair to say her accent is a lot nicer.

Then again, I'm from Preston, so complaining about other people's accents is probably a little unfair.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Rounding up the Muslims:

Then again, I'm from Preston, so complaining about other people's accents is probably a little unfair

Yeah, but I've heard you speak in person. YOu're weird, but not that weird.

[Doctor Phibes]

My accent has been very toned down over the years. When I go back home it re-appears, and I start talking reet funny like.