The Laogai System: the Horror of Mao’s Forced Labour Camps
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Dive deep into the harrowing history of Mao Zedong's Laogai system, where millions endured forced labor, torture, and indoctrination. Discover the grim reality hidden behind the façade of Communist China's "reform through labor" policy.
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Thank god my grandmother crossed the borders of China to Hong Kong. I will always remember what my father said to me. He starved so much and was so grateful for watery gruel that he said he wanted be a chef, so that nobody would ever have to experience hunger like he did when he was 4 years old. And become a chef he did! Eventually he decided to migrate to Britain to start his own restaurant. I can't imagine what it was like for a child who survived that era and grew up in communist China.
I've read multiple books on about how it has been to grow up during Mao's Great leap backwards and the Cultural Devolution. It wasn't pretty in any sense of the word, except maybe the small things. But overall, the 50's-80's was something the CCP shoudln't have never put the Chinese people through. Many were scarred for life and left jaded, hence the system we have today...
I got goosebumps reading your comment. I have some picture of what your grandmother ran away from and I can say with some certainty, that she made the right choice for herself and especially her future family. You might not exist if she hadn't moved then. Makes you think...
@@FinUgShietit is pretty wild to think about. Every one of our ancestors had to be in the right place at the right time, and likely had to make some tough choices or persevere some awful things, in order for us to be alive today. Most Chinese immigrants would’ve had family members that managed to get out of communist China, every first or second generation immigrant had a patent or grandparent was able to escape from the Kim family regime, the majority of European and Israeli Jews today descend from a holocaust survivor.. sometimes it seems crazy that humanity is able to even continue lol
I grew up in America, as a young adult in the late 2000s, just a couple of years of wondering where my next meal was going to come from sparked a lifelong love of agriculture, food, and eventually craftsmanship. If suffering begets beauty, if I may be so bold, I must imagine your father's cooking to be divine!
western sanctioned china and when china was in a drought, i was there, in the coastal area, next to hong knog nobody were starving that is bullshit. people suffered were in sichuan inland etc. this is bs channel . cia scripts bs.
What is also mind boggling is people's unwavering belief that communism can be a success.
There is no war in Ba Sing Sei.
It's funny...but damn. It's too real.
My first thought too...
My name is Joo Dee
😂
bazinga i guess
So that's where the inspiration for Lake Laogai came from? And also Monk Gyazo? Thanks for this Episode. Not only did it enhance my knowledge of history, but also taught me new things about one of my favorit TV shows of all time.
Dark Episode, but at least no cabbages were harmed here.
Monk Gyatso was actually named after Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
@@SlickTater W monk knowledge
@@SlickTater And Aangs son, Tenzin
Yup. They did their research.
Both of my grandfathers were in it. One was a US educated professor who went back to fight the japanese during WW2, and the other owned a pharmacy. The professor was called a counter revolutionary because he rightfully questioned the absurd orders for the great leap forward. The pharmacy owner was still branded a capitalist's dog by the communists even after they took everything. Both were lucky to survive, finally released by Deng Xiaoping's reform after Mao's death. The US educated grandfather made sure my parents studied hard and got into US universities and immigrated out because the politic in China can change anytime at the whims of one man.
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Ohhhh gosh yu are right
Fun Fact: This is the reason why it is called Lake Laogai
Immediately thought of avatar lake laogai when I saw the video title
hearing this was literally a light bulb moment
Everything is fine,there is no war
There is no war in ba sing se
How funny that I JUST got off a video that was about ATLA Lake Laogai. It was an analysis video, and boy is it good.
To allow yourself to believe that things such as this cannot happen again in a major country would be the equivalent of an adult writing a letter to Santa Claus.
Stockholm syndrome, is when a victim totally sympathetic to their kidnappers, abuser's! (Subconscious survival strategy!)
lots of American kids seem to think they can make communism work, but they also think people should be forced into re-education seminars for not respecting pronouns, so I think we all know how communism would turn out under their guidance.
They still have these camps in China
This could happen so very easily again, there is a lot of hate out their. It could happen so very very easily. There is just as much or even more polarised Hate out their now as there was in the first half of the 20th Century. There are people that would do it with ease.
@@megsleyplease help me remember: which president put kids in cages again?
One of the reasons why i hate people who idiolise mao.
Xi, is Mao, 2.0
@@billpetersen298When the reality of what has truly been done with the “reeducation” of Uighurs is revealed to the world, in its entirety, humanity will shiver.
Yeah socialists/communists, or more specifically 'tankies', are notorious for having such a profound hatred of the western world in which they hold basically every small action accountable, but the they turn around and defend and glaze everything communist countries do.
Cuba is a good example, they idolize figures like Che, and also claim that the only reason Cuba is a failed state is because of the embargo, when in reality its a multitude of things like no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly (they get arrested en masse for protests), horrendous economic management etc.
@@braedenhunter6501- one can only hope, but given the fact the the internet exists and just a cursory search would inform people about the evils of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Che, etc., leftists still admire them… 🙄
Found the land lord.
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
- Mao Zedong
Then what's the sickle for?
@@M0rshu64to remove a digit every time you don't tell them the truth
@@GrievousReborntheir truth
@@GrievousRebornBy "truth" you mean the official party message
TBH honestly not much difference between them and Conservative parties like the Republicans & the LNP. If look up the Republicans Project 2025 which is 900 page on how to implement Fascism across the USA. I think we see the rise of the third R*ech again in the USA if Orange man gets in.
It never ceases to amaze me how much research the ATLA creators did for the show. From actual martial arts fighting styles being used to the cultures of each nation, to the fact that ba sing se has elements of communist china.
Minus 10,000 Social Credit Points!
They referred to Tibetans as a separate category from Chinese, so better make it 11,000.
That system is going to be installed in other countries.
Yes....hes gonna get a lot of flak for this.....
Better not take any flights that may maliciously be rerouted to HK.
They’re already trying this in the west. You get punished for “wrong-think.” If you even slightly disagree with the “approved narrative” you”” get shunned, cancelled, lose your job, etc.
That story of the guy who begged to be let back into the Laogi after being shunned by his family and his village is heartbreaking and harrowing, but just imagine being a guard at that camp and seeing him return at the gates and begging to be let back in; that would catch me so off guard.
People need belonging. In old times, being exiled was certain death. One could not survive alone, physically, and mentally it's equally deadly.
@mariusvanc deeply true.
THAT is called "BEING BROKEN DOWN TO LESS THAN HUMAN"...THIS is a main tactic of Communism... LOOK at WHO funded the CCP originally...
@@mariusvanc exile wasn't a death sentence. The Greeks used to exile people all the time, and there are literally hundreds of recorded accounts of Greek generals exiled to Persia. There are just as many counts of Persians being exiled to Arabia and Greece. Exiles were typically shunned for a period of seven years, at which time they were allowed to return home. It was an alternative to imprisonment, not execution. You really need to do a little history homework.
Begging is fictional.
Simon, your script writers improved a lot. Years ago they were not accurate. Now - impeccable.
I worked in China in the mid ‘90’s. We had an interpreter who was a professor of electrical engineering. He grew up with the Japanese occupation in WWII. Later, he was in university when the “Hundred Flowers” movement was on and got denounced. During the Cultural Revolution he was denounced as an “Intellectual” and sent to the country side to “learn from the peasants” where, because he was a professor of electrical engineering, he dug holes for telegraph poles. He went to self-criticism sessions every single day. He was beaten often. He stayed in the countryside until Deng Xiaoping came to power and declared “It is glorious to get rich.” He was rehabilitated back into the city where he was allowed to teach and work as an interpreter.
In the ‘90’s when he was with me he was escorting me around Tiananmen Square where Mao’s Mausoleum is. You could enter and pass by the preserved body of Mao himself…or a wax figure. Who knows? I asked the professor if he wanted to come though with me but he shook his head no, and whispered “I hate him, Mr Colin! I hate him!” I went through and when I came out I said “Good news, Professor!” and then whispered “He is still dead!” Well, the professor laughed and clapped his hands and repeated it to me…he is still dead! For the next two months we worked together he would sometimes look at me and laugh and whisper “He is still dead” and clap his hands. That was nearly 30 years ago and I think of him often.
It’s fun to find many names and references in Avatar Last Air Bender that come from China:
Dai Li, Mao’s secret police chief
Laogai, this labour camp
The Earth King being a ‘God’ to his people, Mao’s personality cult
And more, probably.
Seems like the Earth Kingdom should have used red as their color, not the Fire Nation...
Fun fact: The Earth King was based on the real Chinese Emperor, Aixin Gioro Puyi.
He wore glasses, dressed in manchurian garb, and never went outside his palace.
Dai Li is not Mao's secret police chief. The secret police chief of Mao is Kang Sheng. Though Dai Li was the 1st secret police chief of Chiang Kai Shek's KMT.
@@michaelguderian
I was close; going off memory
@@slyninja4444luckily they didn’t also take over puyi‘s personality
We as Americans are scarcely educated on the history of the CCP I think that is a major problem.
"Reform through labor"
Sounds like.
"Arbeit meicht frei"
Sound familier?
The term was coined in the late 1800's before the Nazi's co-opted it.
It's all socialism... a completely unnatural system that needs violence to incorporate. The Nazis got their cues from Communists in Russia.
Marxists tend to think alike
😂 My comment got deleted because I mentioned one totalitarian regime copied their practices from another totalitarian regime. Mods don't like "hate facts".
Sounds exactly the same to me
TLDR: Chinese Gulags were just as bad as Russian ones! another great video Simon!
"Soviet."
~Douchey McNitpick
@@pyromania1018 A distinction without a difference.
This is why democracy is so important to fight for. It isn't a guarantee, it takes constant work. Constant updating and moving forward.
@@joshuablair252no it doesn’t. The PRC is nowhere near democratic and never has been.
@@joshuablair252also a constitutional republic is a form of democracy dim wit.
@@joshuablair252and the Nazis weren’t a democracy either.
That's why the second amendment is so important to Americans
@@tobyhorn9641 If privately-owned firearms were any good at stopping tyranny, Afghanistan would be a very different place than it is.
I'm Joo Dee, welcome to Ba Sing Se.
We are so lucky to have our walls to create order
Gotta appreciate how much research went into even the most minute details of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
But the research only focuses on the negative, any positive won't be acknowledged, and in other videos regarding Russia or China figures regarding death tolls have been inflated. This video conveniently avoided the condition of China before Mao took power, orr the brutality of Japanese and British colonisation. And the thousands of years of continues domestic wars between States,. To unify China at such a time was an accomplishment no short of s miracle. And the fact that the beginning needed to be brual and hard and authoritarian is evident to the history pre and post Mao.
@@taffiejosh Tankies truly are nothing more than Red Nazis.
@@taffiejoshwhile I see your point and respect your opinion. I don’t believe in shedding light on Laogai is an intentional move to burry the havoc and ruin those outside empires brought on China. While violence and tyranny is typically way to gain control and “unify”, it’s not the only way. What the Western powers did to rip China “open” to the world is not talked about enough. The inhuman actions of the Imperial Japan has been intentional suppressed by Japan. Those don’t disregard the what Mao and the CCP did to the common people of China. Those truths are also intentionally suppressed and information in their state controlled media won’t report on its own corrupt governments. This isn’t a problem in only China, other countries did very similar things in the time period. It’s important to know information like this because it provides so much context for modern day China.
@@taffiejoshwhat fucking positives? xD
@@taffiejosh Communists aren't people.
For context, I first watched Avatar as an adult.
"Lake Laogai? Where have I heard that word before.. *does some Googling* oh..."
And yes, Avatar being unbelievably based as usual, giving the CCP the middle finger.
Gulag Archipelago 2: Chinese Boogaloo
Chairman Mao has invited you to Lake Laogai
Chairman Mao's Little Red Book of Sayings was apparently mandatory reading for British Rail staff at one point. I have an uncle who used to work for them during that period, as a porter who wasn't actually allowed to do any portering.
Also, of COURSE the laogai still exist. Where do you think lithium for batteries comes from?
Yeah, they have millions in concentration camps so forcing them to do something makes sense.
Well sense in communist terms.
You know how we know Uihgur children are smarter than American children? American children use Iphones; Uighur children make them.
You’re right, they certainly do still exist. It’s not just batteries but cotton and pretty much anything one can think of. I try not to buy anything made or sourced there because of it - and the pollution.
Interesting that you say that about the rail workers. My husband (British) believes that Britain was a somewhat socialist country when he was growing up in the 80s.
My mom had a copy in the mid-70s it was definitely going around.
@@comment3711 It definitely was during the 60s and 70s, with the unions killing off the car industry and trying to choke out everything else. Containerisation and new port facilities came to britain because enough industries defied the dock worker strikes and built newer, automated ports further out to accept bigger, more automated, more efficient ships.
My grandfather was part of the cooperative that built those, since he was a farmer and mill owner.
This reminds me of the horrific torture and incarceration of the Uyghurs in China since approx 2017.
Yeah China didn't stop
This reminds me of the forced removal of hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples from their homes and repeated beach of treaties
The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.
My name is Joo Dee
"You guys can criticize me all you want, don't worry" why would people fall for that
Jesus Christ... "A prudent estimate." ?!?! Wtf are we doing in this world?!
You should do a video about the Xinjiang papers that came out a few years ago
This is why we should have democracy everywhere.
It would be rather nice to have it in my country, the USA.
Democracy doesn't prevent atrocities. Majorities are the ones who commit atrocities in the first place.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL....as if democracy is the best system. As if HItler wasn't voted into office. Let's all pretend biden didn't cheat and we didn't see the videos of his minions counting the same vote over and over and over. You don't pay any attention at all to anything. Pittsburg has voted democrat for 100 years, literally, and now they don't even have cops between 3am and 7am. All voted for through democracy. Must be nice to think the world can vote it's way out of the mess low IQ voters wanted LOL
You they were fighting for democracy
And the usa has the largest prison population
Democracy isn't immune to this. Just more resistant to it than any kind of dictatorship
Laodong Gaizao reminds me of Arbeit Macht Frei.
Us people in the Western world often complain about how hard we have it here. No, no. We have it on a platinum platter, Britain and Europe for the most part are 500star holiday resorts compared to the nightmares that take place over that side of the world.
What do you think is coming to us and to our future Generations? Here's a hint. Who is emerging as one of the world's greatest superpowers and who do we owe a shitload of money to? We are watching our rights being eroded every day and this is the end game.
@margaretreefer1145
Let's be honest with ourselves. Neither China nor Russia have the potential to match the western powers at their current state.
China's corruption and *flagrant* human rights violations severely outweigh any economic output they muster. It doesn't help their military index is so full of corruption that you'll be lucky to find a working ICBM.
Russia, I don't need to explain.
Just cause someone has it worse does not make your suffering any less important. We should be trying to make our species proliferate, but we would rather stagnate ourselves by dividing ourselves.
@@margaretreefer1145if you think China is going to be able to project power you need to take a second look at their demographics. China will collapse in on itself in the next 20-30 years.
I really despise this argument. Just because others have it worse than you, doesn't mean you don't deserve to have it better. Explain to me why the existence of brutal authoritarian regimes means that we are not allowed to wish for things like reasonable wages or affordable houses.
This is why fighting for Democracy is imperative!
My grandpa was in a similar camp in Vietnam after the war (arvn soldier). All day being told to memorize quotations from communists readings and then going outside to break rocks and build roads. Grandpa was always a book nerd, so memorizing quotes wasn't hard at all, but let's just say he didn't feel very reeducated at the end. Did drive him to alcoholism though.
Laogai never ended, where do you think the cheap Chinese clothes made from Xinjiang cotton came from?
It’s in every purchase on TEMU and Sheinn when you made those purchases.
Forced labor and slavery is still very prevalent in China thanks to the ccp
The Earth-King has invited you to Lake Laogai
I don't think China wants us talking about this.
Evils of communism
TRUTH*
@@tachyon8317how is it truth?
Never forget who created communism and pushed it to spread around the world
@@woahblackbettybamalam that asshole Lenin?
@@woahblackbettybamalamwho? Weren't them dern chosen fellers was it
Simon, you most definitely should do a safety violation video.
Just watch any Chinese videos of people working.
Thank you, Arnaldo. Ppl in the US don’t know that criticizing the opposing political party(if there even is one) is all it takes to be sent to one of these places…The ones that advocate for it would be the ones imprisoned if they had the mental ability to reverse the roles. Or to realize that it’s almost impossible to 100% agree with anything, let alone political OPINIONS. It scares me that so many ppl in the US support a system like communism/socialism/statism(all the same damn thing, just different ways of implementing it)
They aren't the same thing. Even Mao would tell you that.
The US party that is promoting socialism is already attacking opponents by trying to get them all arrested
@@cg4432 show me a country where communism worked - ill wait.
this all sounds very familiar
You should make a video on the seaorg of Scientology.
Thank you for explaining it in detail. Why does such a proven bad system still exist to this day around the world? Humans are incomprehensible for allowing such to continue. It’s given that oppression limits productivity and advancement.
Marxism/Communism is the easiest path to power for the incompetent. That's my guess why such a failed system still has supporters anyway.
21:22
"I have 600.000.000 people, if I have to sacrifice 100.000.000 of them to the revolution then so be it"
~Chairman Mao
Real quote?
@@mrvn000 Yes. Mao also said: "It is better that 50 million should starve to death (which there were during the GREAT LEAP FORWARD), so 50 million can work"
Ah, the ChiCom new math.
Peak monstrosity...
“He loved big brother.”
Why does the world work with china at all
First, they offered the cheapest products through cheap labor and not caring about the environment. Second, they have natural resources that they have specifically tried to maintain the lowest cost for and really locked down that whole not caring about the environment thing. Third, they just kept doing everything they could to maintain that position so they could profit. It worked, it essentially became the basket everyone was putting everything into, until they began to see the writing on the wall and started freaking that they needed to move away from working with China so that their industries wouldn't be shut down by the CCP. The US started blocking trade with them and businesses were freaking out because they wanted the money from working with China.
In short, China made itself cheap and did things others didn't want to do, and Capitalists LOVE setting tomorrow ablaze for higher share value today.
Cheap labor
No labor laws
No epa
By rights we should have sanctioned them
I’m pretty sure Uyghur Muslims are still experiencing this
Oh Liu how you suffered. No words can express how you have your life has been affected by this doctrine. I hope your pillow is soft now.
My grandmother used to tell me stories of how terrible it was, and how people would throw themselves off the tops of the prisons to escape. I'm glad she made it through and that the CCP recognised her usefulness for the country instead of stubbornly persecuting the educated.
Is this what Lake Laogai in avatar is named after?
Simon, the Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai
Hey, you should have gotten Temu to sponsor this particular video
Turns out South Park's episode about a Chinese prison was spot-on.
How many friggin channels does this guy have!? Half of friggin UA-cam is this guy.
UA-cam will only promote so many videos per channel per week. This group gets around that issue by having a lot of different channels. Same production company, same reader, different channel.
@@jesseberg3271and each channel covers different topic themes.
Megaprojects, sideprojects, decoding the unknown, places, warographics, science unbound, astrographics, casual criminalist, brain blaze, today I found out, into the shadows. Also pre 2023 geographics biographics and top tenz that are owned by someone else.
16:42 punished for "frequent visits to the latrine?" sounds like they was working for amazon
After watching the Decoding the Unknown video on Holocaust deniers, I can’t help but wonder why no (to my knowledge) people that have survived atrocities like this have ever denied this happens? Before anyone thinks I’m comparing these atrocities, I’m not. Not in the slightest. I’m only questioning why people are selective on what they believe and what they “think” actually happened.
When I say ‘atrocities’ I mean all instances of genocide across the world. There are far more than my mind can comprehend.
It's a hot take that will get 'unpleasant' reactions but I'm going to say it all the same. I think it was more about WHO the Holocaust effected than anything. Without going into what country did what and when, there was no other period in global history where genocide was acted out on a race of true Caucasians. Upto today, the closes that we've seen this again was former Soviet bloc countries (Bosnia, etc) and the UN, etc., stepped in immediately. All of the other places of genocide have been in countries whose citizens would be considered impoverished or third world (Rwanda, etc) and are politically ruled by dictatorships dressed up as Communist or Socialist Republics. These are dismissed as religious or civil political war actions within those countries. The Holocaust was multiple countries and the only notable violent action within Caucasians. The majority of those denying it are a small minority of Caucasians.
I’d say that’s a fair point to make @@sknkwrksowner . Never thought of it that way.
Remember the Chinese hate the Japanese for what was done to their people. Then they do the same to their own people. Just instead of rape, murder and grizzly medical experiments it’s work camps, starvation and murder.
@@sknkwrksowner I'd say a far more important factor concerning how the Holocaust was and is remembered is who did it and what else was going on at the time, not necessarily who it was done to.
The people who it was done to had faced similar on and off persecution throughout Europe for centuries, the difference being the scale of it, which could be achieved with 20th C technology only. It was not the first time by any means.
I don't know what your definition of a "true" Caucasian is, sounds like a get out clause to me (no true Scotsman vibes), but wouldn't you say that Armenians at least are Caucasian too?
I guarantee this is still happening today. Just with a lot more secrecy
Are you in a position to guarantee such a thing?
@eadweard. I know people who are. Unfortunately I can't identify them for obvious reasons.
@@tootallforyou112 People will just have to take your word for it it.
@@eadweard. unless you want someone to die yes
@@tootallforyou112 You see funny things on the Internet but "Believe me unless you want people to die" is a new one.
The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai
I see a lot of Dai Li Agents from the Earth Kingdom within this comment section
But Dai Li was anti-communist till his death?
@@Nestalgba92023 I'm talking about fictional organization from a popular anime
This one had to be demonetized, unless Simon and company get a pass others don't.
Those poor people. It's so sad.
Now do one about the prison slave labor system in the United States
These days are coming back with Mao 2.0. the terminology of these times are back. The little vlogger girl who sung along sing songy humming with the national anthem disappeared and when she was heard of again it was one message of 'i will re educate myself and engage in rigouros self criticism
The Uighur people are not allowed to leave their house without their phone so they can be tracked. And if they spend time talking to a person of I treat, they get a text from the government that says to stay away from that person or they will be sent for "re education"
Isnt this still used to humiliate the muslim minority? Forced to eat pork for example.
This is one of many reasons I could never support any president who even JOKES about being a dictator.
Fun fact: Mobile execution vans are still a thing TODAY! IN CHINA! Laowhy86 has a great video on this
While we are all aghast at stories like this, if we could truly empathize and feel what they felt/feel, we'd all be doing something about this. Both the convicted and the witnesses all become desensitized and it just seems like a ghastly story. This is why we walk by homeless people sleeping on the concrete and do nothing and in some cases even blame them, same as the family of the man who tried to return home. You only get one life to live and imagine if you were a slave of any sort and what that means to all the potential and experience those persons could have had.
This should be compulsory viewing in western countries schools.
Comrade Mao has invited you to lake Laogai
With less torture, communism, and corruption involved, this wouldn't be a bad way to change the US prison system. Might even be less dangerous. Then again, that's just on-paper, and I'm sure if I thought about it a bit more it'd be quite flawed.
😳🤯🙁 My faces this whole video......
Looks like half the comments are people of culture loving ATLA. And I am down for that.
Every communist philosopher forgot to count in human nature 😭
Yep human nature is why communism will never work because humans are inherently greedy
It makes me think of that episode of Avatar The Last Airbender there is no war in bar sing sae but for this there is no intelligence in Communist China
I keep seeing people making comments about Canadian war crimes. Can you make it Into the Shadows about The war crimes that the Canadians did to shape the Geneva convention?!
was staggered to see this portrayed in the opening scene of Three Body Problem. I wonder how it got through the west's censors.
I imagine this still exists in some form.under a different name
holy shit, now I know where Lake Laogai (from Avatar the Last Airbender) got its name
The Earth King invites you Lake Laogai
Funny but I was just comparing this with what's happening to us here in the US. It's chilling to think this is totally possible with tyrants ruling our country today. I see dark days ahead.
Chairman Mao has invited you to Lake Laogai.....
Okay, how many people here saw the name Laogai, and clicked thinking we'd maybe get a lesson on Avatar? No judgement, I only just made the connection in the middle of watching the video.
Me ;p
I knew it wasn’t but i did click to see if the comments were gonna be flooded with AtLA references 😂
There is no war in Ba Sing Se...
The Great Chairman Mao invites you to Lake Laogai...
Ah yeah, even the concentration camps are now diverse !!!
The Laogai Lake in Avatar, is based on the chinese communist forced labour camps.
Kinda makes Hitler look like a choir boy by comparison.
I agree. As bad as some of the WWII directors were (Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco), what some of the Asian/ South Pacific despots are definitely bigger, worse monsters.
The scary thing for me is how long these places have been and still are doing it, and we, "the compassionate West", do almost nothing.
It breaks my heart when I think about it, and I wish there was something legitimate that we could actually do.
I'm gonna have to disagree. Hitler was a megalomaniac who wanted to kill babies and spent his whole life being a parasitic, cowardly narcissist. A Disney villain in all but name.
Not really? Have you not read of the concentration camps?
Dunno, 6 or so million deaths under Hitler, up to 50 attributed to Mao. What do you reckon?
@@baneofbanesYes and the truth is very different than the official story
The earth king has invited you to lake laogai.
He finally found a subject that he couldn’t blame on the USA.
Only About 25% Of The Comments On This Video Are Actual Comments On The Logai System.......
& The Rest Are Avatar: The Last Airbender References.😮
No fkng way, this is tottaly the Dai Li
Who knows what horrors still going on in china to the uyghurs and other minorities...
they probably sent Tank Man to Lake Laogai
Apparently Tank Man wasn't some high-principled hero, he was just the local nut, who did erratic things and was tolerated because he was pretty harmless. He just did random things. Like in that case stand in front of tanks. Kind of like a homeless guy in a small town I used to live in, called "Moses" because he'd stand in traffic so the traffic would part like the Red Sea. Tank Man probably barely knew what planet he was on.
sounds like pinko apologist rhetoric, but watching a young person cape for authoritarianism isn't anything new... seeing as no one has produced anything to positively identify him, I say your claim is bullshit, whereas the millions dead are very real
Man lake laogai has a different meaning outside of Atla now
Sounds how a lot of corporations and big companies operate to this day.
Thanks for the REDICULOUS, UNTRUE comparison!!
"C'mon man, the A-BOMB is no worse than napalm!!"
....kinda sounds a bit like you.
Corporate rule is single party mono culture. Compliance is essential to life. It's why Americans are soft today.
Temu
The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai
I love that the comments are flooded with ATLA jokes, made 1000 times funnier by the fact that Simon has probably never heard of it 😂
Bet he's saw ATLA
What the frigging heck IS ATLA? Atlanta, Georgia? Right now, if no one explains it properly, i will spontaneously combust in anger against all these stupid non-pertinent comments...
@@ColinWrubleski-eq5sh Avatar the last Airbender. Its a cartoon show from the mid 2000's which was big part of late 90s kids and early zoomers childhoods
Maybe, to obtain a more complete record, we should ask apple or disney or google....
....just sayin'.....
-200 social credit for simon lol