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China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

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Re: China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

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Post by genera1 »

_tik_ wrote: post #28
genera1 wrote: post #13

Oh come on, it's another piece of Adrian Zenz disinformation

I checked Adrian Zenz on wikipedia. Zenz is a born-again Christian, and has stated that he feels "led by God" in his research on Chinese minority groups. He wrote report on Tibetan forced labour too. Quite an interesting source of news by Reuters

He doesn't speak, read or write Chinese and has been caught manipulating, confabulating and straight up lying multiple times. He is a Christian fundamentalist, and has described other belief systems to Christianity as “ultimately inspired by Satan". He's also openly sexist and homophobic in unambiguously hateful ways.

The article is over 3 months old and posted now for some reason.

Re: China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

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Post by baybal2 »

snicksnak wrote: post #33

How come a link to REUTERS article, with the exact headline is flagged?

There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag.

And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it.

Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.

Re: China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

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Post by Causality1 »

alexnewman wrote: post #10
Causality1 wrote: post #4

Nothing will happen. The US/UK bloc wouldn't have done anything about the Nazi Holocaust if Germany hadn't started invading its neighbors.

Does that mean if they do, you’ll reject you axioms?

Certainly. Such a mighty act of unselfishness would have me celebrating in the street.

Re: China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

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Post by emteycz »

thefounder wrote: post #25

For some reasons I thought more or less forced labor has always been part of the communist doctrine. You are suppossed to always have a job whether you like it or not. The Xjinjiang thing brings this to a new level but I'm not entirely surprised. When were the dissidents treated fairly in communist systems?

I don't know why you're downvoted, it's absolutely true, all communist countries considered not having a job to be a very serious crime punished with many years in prison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_(social_offense)

Re: China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

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Post by r0p3 »

xin45 wrote: post #7
arkitaip wrote: post #3

The West will pretend it didn't know anything until it sees videos of the mass graves.

[dead]

The centers of both parties have agreed for decades on selling debt to the Chinese and buying goods made with poorly protected labor.

Re: China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

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Post by leereeves »

baybal2 wrote: post #35
snicksnak wrote: post #33

How come a link to REUTERS article, with the exact headline is flagged?

There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag. And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it. Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.

But why is it still flagged 4 hours later? The HN mods can and do turn off user flags on important stories.

Edit: why is this being downvoted? You've never seen dang turn off flags? He admits it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510075

So that raises the question: why not turn off flags on this story?

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