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The internment camps for Uyghur Muslims are the largest such mass detention in China since Mao.

One million people. It's time we stop being selective in standing up for human rights. China must not repeat the horrors of the Cultural Revolution.

#MuslimsInChina
#中国慕斯林
The perils of authoritarianism should be painfully clear to Americans.

I have long been fascinated with China, its cultures and languages.

I also took a class with Sidney Rittenberg, who was a member of the inner circle of Communist power under Mao.
I wrote this on the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, about lessons we can learn from this horrific period in history:

typhoonical.com/home/chinas-cu…
Division and repression must be stopped and resisted wherever they occur.

The scale of Uyghur oppression is truly unfathomable.

Stand with the Uyghur and stand for human rights.
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