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Re:American mask makers are going out of business by bmn__ on Sunday March 13, 2022 @05:00AM (#30659392)
If someone had told me last week that WB would categorically deny that the government traffics incarcerated Uyghurs from the concentration camps to manufacturing centres for forced labour, I would have said he's crazy.

A shame, really. Your account is on the CCP apologia watchlists now.

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Re:American mask makers are going out of business by mardifoufs on Sunday March 13, 2022 @10:40AM (#30661608)
What?! He didn't deny anything! What he is saying is that slave labor always loses out to free labor. Which is why that happened in the US and why it will happen again against China. So even if China uses slave labor, the American industry can still compete. Otherwise, if slavery is so much more competitive , the northern states would've lost out to the confederacy. It's not an excuse to give up. The Uyghur camps are real, but they won't make China outcompete everyone else. Unless we give up and let it happen.
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Re:American mask makers are going out of business by bmn__ on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:20PM (#30662682)
> He didn't deny anything!

Wrong.

> What he is saying is that slave labor always loses out to free labor.

No, he literally wrote that "it disappeared well over a century ago". This is plain false, but telling this lie plays into the hand of governments like UAE and PRC that use slaves, but would like to forget the world that they do.

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Re:American mask makers are going out of business by WalterBright on Sunday March 13, 2022 @03:17PM (#30664744)
I understand your point and agree with it.

But I meant slavery disappearing in a different sense. It is still used to oppress people, but it is not economically competitive.

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