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Why not both?
by mxmilkiib 5y ago
Why not both?
- joshuajill 5y agoSure, I avoid both to some extent. What worries me the most though is smart people taking sides based on mostly propaganda and feeding an escalation of a situation already on the brink of a war. I mean why choose between Chinese authoritarian regime and the US aggressive and destructive foreign policy?
- mrtranscendence 5y agoBut avoiding Chinese products doesn't necessarily mean taking a stand in a propaganda war. Is China using forced labor? If so, is that worth a response of some kind? These questions are orthogonal to whether the US is worth protesting for its own sins.
- joshuajill 5y agoIt is propagandist and borderline racist. There are factories in China with working conditions comparable or better then in the US. Remember the middle class is growing in China and diminishing in the US. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-state-of-americas-middle-class-in-eight-charts/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-state-of-amer... https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/mapping-chinas-middle-class https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/mapp...