Comment by antimemetics 3 days ago
While I don’t agree with GP, this is a weak argument
> The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_...
This doesn't really mean much when those laws include "you're not allowed to expose crimes by government" not to mention drug laws and copyright. At the end it's not any less arbitrary than whatever excuses the chinese government uses to intern those they don't like.
An interesting fact, though perhaps completely irrelevant since people were sent to the gulags for completely different reasons.
Fun fact. There are more people in the US education system than there ever were in Soviet gulags.
Just as irrelevant.
No. While there were criminals also in gulags, most of people were there only because someone didn't like them or they happened to be wrong time in wrong place. That's it.
It's disingenuous to compare prisons with internment camps.