Xinjiang Cotton
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Xinjiang Cotton
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#2Nice information it is.
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#3Everything from China needs to be boycotted. Chinese celebrities is like being propped up by the Chinese government to spread propaganda whereas the majority of the people languish in poverty
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#4The article describes how China is using forced labour from 're-education' camps in order to harvest the cotton. Is there anything more disgusting than this statement, which the Chinese tacitly agree is true?
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#5The article describes how China is using forced labour from 're-education' camps in order to harvest the cotton. Is there anything more disgusting than this statement, which the Chinese tacitly agree is true?
I completely agree. You'd think that we as a species would have left slavery in a less civilized time... But I guess when money is involved, people find a way to put their morals on hold.
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#6For most of the 20th & 21st century, the west has consistently shown that it does not give fuck where it's cotton comes from, and that it certainly doesn't give a fuck about muslims in other countries, as along as they are slaughtered periodically.
as such, it would be good to pause and contemplate why our governments and media suddenly have a hard on for the well being of an obscure minority, previously unknown, unheard of and indeed unmentioned anywhere in the last several decades.
if you can consider these thing and reach the conclusion that the modern concerns over cotton & uyghurs is sincere, then more power to you. sadly i have much less faith in the earnest benevolence of our governments.
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#7As someone that has family members in Xinjiang with a small cotton plantation, and has actually been to Korla, you could say this is a really interesting subject...
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#8The article describes how China is using forced labour from 're-education' camps in order to harvest the cotton. Is there anything more disgusting than this statement, which the Chinese tacitly agree is true?
I completely agree. You'd think that we as a species would have left slavery in a less civilized time... But I guess when money is involved, people find a way to put their morals on hold.
You'd think that we as a species would have left slavery in a less civilized time.
Tell that to the waiter/waitress you meet. Ask them if they can live on their wages alone.
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#9For most of the 20th & 21st century, the west has consistently shown that it does not give fuck where it's cotton comes from, and that it certainly doesn't give a fuck about muslims in other countries, as along as they are slaughtered periodically. as such, it would be good to pause and contemplate why our governments and media suddenly have a hard on for the well being of an obscure minority, previously unknown, unh…
who cares if they are sincere, the goal is to stop genocide, politicians do that for political reasons and it's up to society to formulate it
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#10As someone that has family members in Xinjiang with a small cotton plantation, and has actually been to Korla, you could say this is a really interesting subject...
a you uygur or han ethnicity?