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The falun gong are major funders of fascism worldwide.
They bought more pro-trump facebook ads in 2016 than anyone except the trump campaign itself.
The buy a lot of ads for victor orban and other european far right figures.
Is that supposed to make this practice less horrifying
It's meant to urge caution. Falun gong are an oppressed, openly fascist cult who will earnestly tell you that their leaders have mastered levitation. They are not honest or credible.
They have definitely faced repression by the chinese state but large scale organ harvesting on demand is cartoonish supervillainy that stretches believablity.
Ah, fair enough, I guess whether this is actually happening is a disputed point. Still, from the article it seems like it is not that much of a stretch from what apparently is not disputed about China's organ transplant practices, which is that there is a lot of organ transplanting going on in China despite a culturally driven absence of voluntary donations, a legalized practice of using the organs of executed prisoners which is officially acknowledged as the primary source of organs, and a market driven method for obtaining them with little accountability.
If it's true that people with the authority to execute prisoners can easily get money by selling their body parts, and there isn't much oversight, it seems like a natural consequence that they might let financial considerations influence when and maybe even whether to kill these prisoners.
That Wikipedia page reads like it's been heavily edited by falun gong folks. Most of the references supporting their arguments come from their own sources or the hilariously named "Victims of Communism Memorial Fund", a right wing US propaganda outlet that is as credible as its name suggests.
But most of the claims I'm talking about, which aren't specifically about Falun Gong, seem to be sourced from more mainstream sources, and are mostly based on official statements by the Chinese government.
Okay, so what?
Nazis have human rights, despite arguing against the human rights of other people.
This is very much a whataboutism argument; you're redirecting credible and at least partially verified claims about China's misconduct back onto the victims of their misconduct.