Re:Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter
by goblin89 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:08AM
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If slavery, segregation, religious prosecution, mass killings and forced sterilizations took place in the West at some point, does it make those things OK for the remainder of humanity’s history?
No one was perfect at all times from day 1, but we should try to hold our partners, and by implication ourselves, to higher standards now that we have agreed to put the aforementioned actions at the extreme left side of the bad-to-good scale.
Re:Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter
by ILMostro7 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:46AM
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Wait and see. Maybe they just need to get their version of the Holocaust to get it out of their system. Deep down, they are good people doing horrific things. So, we just need to let them catch up while they repeat history's horrific acts with impunity.
Re:Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter
by goblin89 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:28PM
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It’s unclear whether without strong worldwide recognition and condemnation it will ever be out of the system, and I’m afraid what made Holocaust to be recognized and condemned is that those who did it started and lost a violent war against other nations.
(I know you jest.)
You read correctly. That is exactly their position.
Not that they are fans of slave labour or of what is happening to the Uyghur people, per se. Just that in the scheme of things - as long the sales channels remain open and unimpeded - they consider it perfectly acceptable to do business in countries where genocide is happening right there, in plain view, for all to see. And will even go so far as to obsequiously apologize to the authorities in these countries for showing event the slightest hint of a suggestion that they felt otherwise.
Very much like back in ... certain countries at certain times that we're not supposed to make comparisons to.