I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1.7 per hour

Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by throwas1984 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:55PM (#19949660)

While I as European fully agree with your point of view, I think that projecting our world perspective on other countries is just bs.

Fight with racism is purely white peoples concept. Racism is a term usually doesn't even exist outside of Europe/North America. So we shouldn't try to put our mentality on top of China, as we are not the sole source of truth in this world.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by nickpeterson on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:14PM (#19949752)

I'll bite, if racism is so accepted in other places doesn't that just make them all wrong? Or are you contending that racism has value?

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by throwas1984 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:21PM (#19949782)

I personally think that racism is very wrong and needs to be left in the past. It has no value in current world.

But me, an European, saying to Chinese how they must live and behave - this is just neo colonialism. They should figure this out on their own.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by true_religion on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:36PM (#19949853)

I mean, they can figure this out on their own but in the meanwhile we don’t have to trade with them and give them money to essentially violate our ethics at arms length distance.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by acct1771 on Sunday May 19, 2019 @10:49AM (#19953548)

What makes our trade with them different than our trade with Saudi/Israel/etc?

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by true_religion on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:18PM (#19954618)

Nothing. Personally, I am against trade with Saudi Arabia.

As for Israel, I am sympathetic to a small, democratic nation populated by the descendants of a western genocide, which is surrounded by hostile autocratic or theocratic neighbors. However that’s my opinion. If Israel’s existence is somehow against your ethics, I won’t force you to trade with them. I would just criticize you more directly.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by tootie on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:56PM (#19949951)

Imposing our views is colonialism. Encouraging justice through soft power is laudable.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by vidoc on Saturday May 18, 2019 @06:39PM (#19950118)

> I personally think that racism is very wrong

The production of intelligence in this thread :)

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by ksaj on Saturday May 18, 2019 @10:34PM (#19951079)

We don't have to fund it, though.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by stallmanite on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:18PM (#19949769)

This is insane. Oppression and killing of one group by another is a problem I don’t care what your culture is.

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