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Not buying products from forced labour concentration camps is generally not an issue of 'wokeness'. Hypocritical wokeness (in the pejorative sense) would be Ni

Not buying products from forced labour concentration camps is generally not an issue of 'wokeness'. Hypocritical wokeness (in the pejorative sense) would be Nike shifting from performance atheletes to SJ athletes like Kaeernick, who sadly has made a direct comparison between the NFL selection process and slave auction. And Nike of course sources shoes in Asia from factories with very suspect labour practices. The US et. al. should absolutely ban anything coming from districts where people are making stuff from concentration camps. If China were a small country, they'd never be able to get away with it, it's not a huge story because everyone is afraid of the consequences.

mschuster91 5y ago
> If China were a small country, they'd never be able to get away with it, it's not a huge story because everyone is afraid of the consequences. In Libya, refugees are carted off to "prisons" not much above concentration camps by the EU-financed "Libyan Cost Guard" [1][2], slavery and other forms of human trafficking are blooming across popular migration routes [3]. And no one gives a fuck, despite all of this happening literally in Europe's neighborhood. Syria's Bashar al-Assad used barrel bombs [4] and chemical weapons [5] against his own population, and "thanks" to Russia protecting him, no one has (and likely, never will be) been prosecuted for these crimes. No matter if you are a small or a big country, the lesson "never again" from the horrors of the NS dictatorship in Germany seem to have been forgotten entirely. [1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-... [2]: https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/complex-persecution-report-documents-shocking-accounts-libyan-coast-guard-s-involvement https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/complex-persecution-repor... [3]: https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/ https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/ [4]: https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/nine-years-syrian-regime-has-dropped-nearly-82000-barrel-bombs-killing https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/nine-years... [5]: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Syrian-Chemical-Weapons-Activity https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Syrian-Ch...
thaumasiotes 5y ago

mschuster91 5y ago

> If China were a small country, they'd never be able to get away with it, it's not a huge story because everyone is afraid of the consequences. In Libya, refugees are carted off to "prisons" not much above concentration camps by the EU-financed "Libyan Cost Guard" [1][2], slavery and other forms of human trafficking are blooming across popular migration routes [3]. And no one gives a fuck, despite all of this happening literally in Europe's neighborhood. Syria's Bashar al-Assad used barrel bombs [4] and chemical weapons [5] against his own population, and "thanks" to Russia protecting him, no one has (and likely, never will be) been prosecuted for these crimes. No matter if you are a small or a big country, the lesson "never again" from the horrors of the NS dictatorship in Germany seem to have been forgotten entirely. [1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-... [2]: https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/complex-persecution-report-documents-shocking-accounts-libyan-coast-guard-s-involvement https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/complex-persecution-repor... [3]: https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/ https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/ [4]: https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/nine-years-syrian-regime-has-dropped-nearly-82000-barrel-bombs-killing https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/nine-years... [5]: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Syrian-Chemical-Weapons-Activity https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Syrian-Ch...

thaumasiotes 5y ago