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China’s ‘Tainted’ Cotton
- satisfaction 6y agoThey call it forced labor, why not use the word: slavery
- londons_explore 6y agoIf I'm broke and there's only one job in town, is that slavery?
- Vrondi 6y agoIf someone removes you from your home and puts you in a town where there's only one job in town, and will not allow you to leave that town, and not allow you to start your own business, that is pretty much slavery.
- economusty 6y agoExcellent point! I'll bet that city has record low unemployment.
- notional 6y agoAccording to the overwhelming majority of comments on this article over at Reddit, the source of this seems to be dubious and sourced information is circular around this guy Adrian Zenz. Is this article bullshit, are the Reddit comments bullshit, is there a middle ground? https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/kd8dah/chinese_government_forcing_hundreds_of_thousands/ https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/kd8dah/chinese_g...
- simonblack 6y agoLike Britain's tainted Indian cotton, and Caribbean sugar, and African diamonds, and Kenyan coffee, and Irish wheat, and Malayan rubber, etc, etc, etc. No country is saintly. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." applies to Britain's BBC as well as many other countries' media.
- yadaeno 6y agoThis is an interesting way to justify slavery. It's not happening until a news organization originating in a 'saintly' country writes an article about it.
- yangvz 6y ago> Whatever the salary level, paid labour can still be considered forced labour under the relevant international convention. That seems to be a dubious definition at best. Hope someone can clarify on this.