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A comment on The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers. Parent comment

Re:The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restau... by pessimizer on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:40PM (#8428650)
I think that your fantasy version of sex trafficking is common, but is certainly not representative. Many (most?) women are trafficked in exactly this way, knowing generally what they will be employed to do, just not knowing how terrible the conditions and pay are, and that they will never be able to pay off their 'debt' to the traffickers.

The vast majority of human trafficking is to provide house servants and manufacturing workers, but we don't care because sex. Judging by this thread, stories of human trafficking that don't involve sex are heartwarming and inspirational.

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Re:The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restau... by zorpner on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:56PM (#8428742)
not knowing how terrible the conditions and pay are, and that they will never be able to pay off their 'debt' to the traffickers

The fact that this is clearly not true in this article may be another way in which it's heartwarming and inspirational, and not comparable to even the whitewashed version of human trafficking you're proposing.

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