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There's no reference to forced labor anywhere in the article. It's just typical Chinese migrant labor, going from absolute 3rd world subsistence farming to a c
by refenestrator 6y ago
There's no reference to forced labor anywhere in the article. It's just typical Chinese migrant labor, going from absolute 3rd world subsistence farming to a crappy, dangerous tenement factory job because that's actually an improvement.
So I'm not sure boycotting their work product is necessarily the right moral call here, even if it were possible.
- edbob 6y agoLet's just ignore the copious evidence of rape, false imprisonment, enslavement, organ harvesting, mass sterilization, forcing young girls to live with abusive Han families, etc. because this one single article doesn't directly reference forced labor.
- refenestrator 6y agoI see you're acquainted with the gish gallop.
- edbob 6y agoDo you wish to make the claim that the BBC's investigations which have reported on that activity are reporting false information? Or do you have some evidence of your own to provide? Do you have anything to add other than cheap denials of established facts?
- refenestrator 6y agoThis was linked downthread and it's pretty good: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher/ https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-...
- edbob 6y agoThat article disputes the validity of one of the BBC's sources. (I'll note that it seems to take state propaganda at face value, which is pretty questionable). What about all the other sources and findings of the BBC investigations? Is it all just one big conspiracy?