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

Post by kingofpandora » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

bloak wrote: post #23

Vaguely related, in that it involves harvesting cotton in Asia: Turkmenistan uses "forced labour" for the cotton harvest. As I understand it, they need a huge number of people for 2-3 months, so people get drafted in. From the point of view of human rights I suppose it's no worse than a compulsory military service. (Or am I missing something?) Nevertheless, many people would prefer not to buy that cotton or clothes m…

Post by transtrain » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

r0p3 wrote: post #38

xin45 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Post by transtrain » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 5:49 PM UTC

emteycz wrote: post #37

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)

Post by me_me_me » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 6:19 PM UTC

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.

Post by yorwba » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

genera1 wrote: post #31

_tik_ wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.