Referencing the Holocaust does not minimize or trivialize the crimes of Nazi Germany, it serves to remind us what humanity is capable of, and how easy it is to become complicit in horrendous evil through inaction and denial.
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There are something like two million people in Xinjiang concentration camps. The idea that Hong Kong may face a similar fate is well within PRC historical precedent and current policy. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/asia/uyghur-china-detention-center-intl/index.html …
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Eerie, just a couple of hours ago I compared Apple's complicity with China and their censorship of things like the Flag of Taiwan for profit's sake to IBM's help with the Holocaust.
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I think the issue is in using another atrocity as a political talking point which isn't related to the original. It's an abstraction from what the original means historically, when most who use the reference haven't much studied the original.
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Also worth considering given that the main USA political figures vocal about HK are people like Hawley.
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