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Slave labor camps are supplying American fashion brands
https://www.fastcompany.com/9041…
The New York Times says that more than a million Uyghurs have been forcibly held in camps and subject to political indoctrination. A United Nations human rights panel said that Uyghurs were being detained in a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” The Chinese government refers to these camps as “vocational training centers.” New evidence has emerged that some of these Uyghurs being coerced to work in factories that make apparel and clothing—and may supply American retailers.
- deathboy is going to have an aneurysmutopian
- < This is what communism delivers.Morning_star
- @morning_star no it's what power and corruption deliver.colin_s
- @colin_s. It's funny how this thread confuses power and corruption for Capitalism yet the same uncharitable definition isn't appropriate for Communism. Oh....Morning_star
- ...well, is it warm and comforting in that echo chamber of yours.Morning_star
- Slave labour is the apotheosis of capitalism. China practices State Capitalism and has since the late 70s or 80s.i_monk
- Every country practices State Capitalism to some extent or another. I wonder if those folk who perished in the Gulags realised they were victims of capitalism.Morning_star
- china used state capitalism to move 1 billion into middle class and the gov't is composed of oligarchs.hotroddy
- and you can look to cuba as another instance of state slavery.hotroddy
- What's the link between capitalism and this? Slave labour pre-dates even agriculture... this is more like colonialism if anything.zarkonite
- Interesting note: There are about 10M Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Estimates say 1.5M or 1 in 6 adults interned, mostly males, so 1/3rd of adult males are interned.monNom
- Which sounds like the majority of the young men have been removed from society, from working, from starting families... it's all a bit genocidey IMOmonNom
- You can't reason with the qbn communists morning.Hayoth
- They do this shit in the USA, no?ben_
- lol utopiandeathboy
- They call it prison labour in the USA. Protesting/refusing to work is met with indefinite solitary confinement.i_monk