Here in Australia they took Aboriginal children away from their parents and put them on missions. They called them orphans while their parents were alive and trying to get them back. The missionaries would beat the children, rape them, force them to work, forbid them from speaking their language, send them outside in July without a jumper, send them to bed at 18 on bare mattresses without a sheet. If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many Indigenous people of mixed descent here in Australia, that’s your answer.
The government justified it all by saying the missions were “educating” the children.
If these Chinese education camps are anything like the Australian ones…
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey hey hey you can’t just compare the two!
That would be like comparing the amount of incarcerated people the US has to China and considering the populations.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The wildest part to me was the international nurse who was shocked that we cared enough about the mentally ill to put them in prison. She was like “back home if they don’t have family that’s willing to take care of them we just physically kick them out of the city and let them wander off and die.”
zbyte64@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
As someone who gets to interact with the unhoused daily, we’re not putting the mentally ill in prison because we care but because they are bad for business.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m aware. I’m telling you what someone else told me.