This is the same logic that got DJI a ban from some proposed invisible link to Uyghur oppression.
Re:The Great Hobby Lobby Artifact Heist
by washadjeffmad on Monday March 24, 2025 @07:57PM
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The article mentions the family had tens of thousands of looted artifacts (there's no legal way to acquire them) and attempted to evade detection by customs by mislabeling them. They knew what they were doing, were told to stop, and they kept doing it.
If you discovered the clergy or elders in your church wanted a supply of something so badly that they secretly used your tithe or offertory to fund a warlord who then enslaved people to acquire it for them, how would you feel? That's a closer equivalent of what Hobby Lobby did to their customers.
Unrelated, but how would you summarize the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark?
If my local church was attempting to support African businesses by purchasing goods but the buyer was getting good from a factory that used slave labor, I would expect the FBI to come talk to the church as well.