DNA Databases in the U.S. and China Are Tools of Racial Oppression
Two major world powers, the United States and China, have both collected an enormous number of DNA samples from their citizens, the premise being that these samples will help solve crimes that might have otherwise gone unsolved. While DNA evidence can often be crucial when it comes to determining who committed a crime, researchers argue these DNA databases also pose a major threat to human rights.
In the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a DNA database called the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) that currently contains over 14 million DNA profiles. This database has a disproportionately high number of profiles of black men, because black Americans are arrested five times as much as white Americans. You don't even have to be convicted of a crime for law enforcement to take and store your DNA; you simply have to have been arrested as a suspect.
[...] As for China, a report that was published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in mid-June claims that China is operating the "world's largest police-run DNA database" as part of its powerful surveillance state. Chinese authorities have collected DNA samples from possibly as many as 70 million men since 2017, and the total database is believed to contain as many as 140 million profiles. The country hopes to collect DNA from all of its male citizens, as it argues men are most likely to commit crimes.
DNA is reportedly often collected during what are represented as free physicals, and it's also being collected from children at schools. There are reports of Chinese citizens being threatened with punishment by government officials if they refuse to give a DNA sample. Much of the DNA that's been collected has been from Uighur Muslims that have been oppressed by the Chinese government and infamously forced into concentration camps in the Xinjiang province.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday July 07 2020, @09:25PM (6 children)
Use race as a distraction so that poor whites have an enemy to focus on so they can justify in their own minds voting for a party that acts against their interest. See: Southern Strategy [wikipedia.org] ,War on drugs. [wikipedia.org]
The US has no left, so the right needs to pretend the other right wing party is a bunch of "Radical Marxists" or whatever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @10:08PM (5 children)
Sane people keep the far-left and far-right as far from mainstream politics as possible.
Uncanny parallels between Weather Underground / Black Panthers & Antifa / Black Lives Matter. The emerging threat in the late '60s was targeted for a reason [fbi.gov] and it's a stain on history that Huey P. Newton is remembered as anything other than a sociopathic murderer, rapist and junkie.
(Score: 1, Troll) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday July 07 2020, @11:20PM (4 children)
Antifa does not really exist except as another imaginary enemy for the right to use to scare the hard-of-thinking with.
It seems to be working too.
The Black Panthers were heroes, and ought to be celebrated as such by the second amendment people, because that is one of the rights they fought for for.
It worked until Ronald Reagan decided guns were only for white people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @12:00AM (3 children)
LOL [discoverthenetworks.org] The development of modern Antifa is described in chapter 2 of "Antifa" - Mark Bray's anti-fascist handbook. [archive.org]
What the fuck does the second amendment have to do with murder? [salon.com] Why are so many leftist "heroes" murderers?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @02:43AM
Dylann Roof is an American hero!
#MAGA
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 08 2020, @03:51AM (1 child)
I love your links.
You try to prove your point by linking to some weirdo far right propaganda and think it helps your case? Hilarious.
David Horowitz? Jesus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @01:23PM
I'm not sure Mark Bray would appreciate that characterization of his work.
Horowitz is a former editor of radical Marxist rag Ramparts - the magazine of the 60s new left. He began distancing himself from the left after his friend was murdered. [wikipedia.org] I'm not sure Jesus had much to say on the evils of Marxism although there may be parallels to the millions of innocent people murdered after struggle sessions with the sociopathic scumbags rallying behind the "Marxist cause".
If you want to give a link some love, how about this by Ken Kelley? [archive.org] Former White Panther, editor of Ann Arbor Argus, [wikipedia.org] The Berkeley Barb [wikipedia.org] and Sundance magazine? Not so well known as Jesus but a verifiable contemporary and confidant of the murderous, crack-addled sociopath Huey P. Newton.