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Bloody Harvest–How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century
- ncmncm 7y agoThis is completely credible. But what can we do? At least, there should be investigations of people returning from surgery in China.
- Bostonian 7y agoWhen American states have considered religious freedom laws that would allow wedding florists, photographers and the like to not work at same-sex weddings, some U.S. companies have threatened not to make further investments in those states. Whatever one thinks about those laws, murdering people for their organs is much more serious. So why don't U.S. companies that imagine themselves to be enlightened say they will not invest in new offices and factories in China unless the organ harvesting stops?
- basementcat 7y agoMany jurisdictions (in the USA) that subjugate LGBTQ individuals also happen to be isolated (relative to CA/NY) small markets. China, on the other hand is the world’s largest economy. It is easy to boycott some small town or poor state; it is harder to do the same for a major economic power.
- lykr0n 7y agoBecause the computer you wrote the comment on was made in china, or a large amount of components were. The devices used to transmit the data to the internet were likewise made in China.
- StuffedParrot 7y agoHow convenient that the part of humanity they finger out as running the “crime of the century” is economically opposed to Quillete’s love of the american free market. In reality both these governments are just as bad. Chinese and muslim? Have your culture destroyed. Bad luck with the law in the US? Have your life destroyed, either by bullets or neglect in camps or prison. Compare this to all the people who have been incarcerated for drug posession, if they were not originally framed. Why would china pay any attention to our LACK of morals? We have no ground to stand on.
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- duxup 7y ago>In reality both these governments are just as bad. I don't understand how people do the math on this or why such arguments come up when it involves news they don't like.... rather than actually talk about the story itself.
- socceroos 7y agoI would guess that people are perceiving the news to be a part of a wider mud-slinging match between two super powers and would rather argue about who gets to cast the first stone.
- StuffedParrot 7y agoYou don’t argue with propaganda. Completely missing from this article are all the reasons we can’t say shit about china: our own human rights record is terrible and everyone knows it.
- expert700 7y agoWhataboutisms, a frequent strategy of the CCP's concerted online influence effort, are counterproductive. Drawing a false equivalence between crimes against humanity in China and lesser events in the US does not a justification make.
- dang 7y agoPlease keep tired tropes like "whataboutism", and other canned arguments, out of HN threads. They're repetitive, add no information, and lead to predictable discussion. Plenty of previous explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20whataboutism&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- GoodJokes 7y agoCrime of the century? Its bad, but...
- ehmish 7y agoI was a bit curious did a bit of digging around into this, and I found this[1] article linked to on a rationalwiki article on Falun Gong. It seems to call into question the claim that china is doing a lot of secret organ transplants [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-the-face-of-criticism-china-has-been-cleaning-up-its-organ-transplant-industry/2017/09/14/d689444e-e1a2-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-the-fac...