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>but companies like Apple who try to be "woke" have no buisness advocating for equality at home while doing buisness with a nation that has imprisoned thousands
by magduf 7y ago
>but companies like Apple who try to be "woke" have no buisness advocating for equality at home while doing buisness with a nation that has imprisoned thousands of religious minorities in re-education camps.
How is that worse than doing business in a nation that has imprisoned thousands of impoverished migrants in concentration camps and has forcibly separated children from their families, to the point where many of them have never been reunited?
At least in China, the facilities for large-scale manufacturing all exist there. You need some tiny screws to build your laptop? No problem, there's a company in the same city that makes them by the millions; in America, you have to contract with some machine shop to make them for a fortune and you can't get the quantity you need for large-scale manufacturing.[1]
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-china-made.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...
- peterhadlaw 7y agoDo words not mean anything anymore? Nazi (now obsolete), Racist (now obsolete), Concentration Camp!? You're really going to compare a crime against humanity - a system designed to EXTERMINATE over 6 million people to an unfortunate situation at the border (which has resulted in, what, 7 [very sad, potentially preventable] deaths?). Do you want a ticket to Auschwitz to see what an actual concentration camp looks like? That can be my gift to you if you'd stop diluting our language and erasing our history for the sake of 6+ million people.
- empath75 7y agoThey were concentration camps before they were extermination camps. You’re the one shifting language.
- freehunter 7y agoRacist is a now-obsolete term? Um okay...
- sgift 7y agoI invite you to Dachau if you want a tour there. Dachau never was a formal extermination camp, but it was the concentration camp after which all other concentration camps were modeled and then modified. Maybe after a tour there you learn to be quiet about things you don't understand.
- peterhadlaw 7y agoHey guess who's Polish (sorry to burst your bubble there my German friend)? Has spent large amounts of time researching the atrocities of the Holocaust? And has been to Auschwitz (I guess they wanted to keep the fumes of the human corpses outside of their homeland.)
- mindthegap 7y agoSo after all your research you are saying concentration camps and extermination camps are the same?
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- msbarnett 7y ago"Concentration camps" predate the Nazis by centuries, and post-date them as well. You're mistaking concentration camps in general with the smaller subset of industrialized death camps in specific that we associate with the Holocaust.
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