• seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 hours ago

    If you knowingly buy chinese goods produced with slave labor you’re a shitbag and they’re a shitbag. There can be more than one shitbag in the chain.

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      11 hours ago

      slave labor

      china

      lmao you could have said coco or diamonds or meat packing or the World Cup or gestured vaguely at the country with the highest prison population, but you had to go with the fictional example. Or do you genuinely think China has slaves driving combine harvesters (unlike Angola or a dozen other prisons where slaves pick cotton by hand)?

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          27 seconds ago

          I mean I don’t like tankies either but is this user wrong? it’s a little weird to use these flippant (and frankly, derogatory) stereotypes about China when there are so many examples of it around the world

          it’s 2025 and we’re in middle of a trade war with china, just recovering from “kung flu” narratives and a platform of fearmongering about china to initiate a fascist takeover of the USA.

          maybe we should be mindful of how we talk about China.