It was shameful since the OP dropped an irrelevant straw man hand grenade into the conversation.

Buying tooth brushes or power tools from China may not be ideal, but it is no where near as bad as helping the Chinese goverment oppress its people by contributing to limiting their people's access to information. For a dollar.

Next thing you know, Google might do something really bad, like helping the US Army with some AI research. zOMG!