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You're more than welcome to stop buying Chinese products anytime you want. Everyone ignored a superpower's rampant abuses over the last 30 years and still did
by ShorsHammer 7y ago
You're more than welcome to stop buying Chinese products anytime you want.
Everyone ignored a superpower's rampant abuses over the last 30 years and still did business with them, what exactly makes you think that same world will stand up for "human rights" this time?
It's funny how certain places care about rights far removed from their own existence while ignoring those right in their face.
The US still has the most people imprisoned per capita. 85% of which are for non-violent crimes, mostly drugs. To ignore that (mostly)black guy who got 5 years federal prison for selling weed who now has to work for $0.70 an hour (sound familiar?) while actively campaigning for the release of violent muslim separatists who want to create their own country in far western China is staggering.
I guess freedom is just a word to some.
That or Americans in general are 10x more evil on the whole than the rest of the developed world due to their prison population? Perhaps the police are 10x more effective than everyone else.
I'd be interested in the number of US citizens that actively campaign about their prison system compared to those who talk about China bad.
Let's face it, unless you are an expert on the subject virtually everyone you meet simply repeats what the news media tell them, that's the extent of their knowledge on basically all topics.
Now, how many people watch, experience or live outside of that nationalistic media-infused bubble? Fraction of a percent?
To talk about another country with no experience of it is farting in the wind. There's really no point discussing China with Americans anymore online because there's far too much emotional baggage, media disinformation and talking points repeated verbatim. The fragile ego's of the biggest, strongest, most militaristic country is on show for all to see while China charges forward towards being the largest economy on Earth.
Undoubtedly when that day comes, "biggest" will mean GDP per capita, not gdp and those fragile sandcastles of the national psyche can rest easy for a decade or two longer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...
Millions of people in US prisons faced "justice" and lengthy incarceration as far as American society is concerned, why exactly do you consider the imprisonment of Chinese Muslim separatists undeserved? They are bombing civilians and actively trying to create a new nation-state. Who is the bad guy here?
Exercise for the reader: when was the last foreign civilian child killed by both the US and China? How many civilians have been killed by each countries military in the last decade (last two decades)
- cmendel 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes