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"Tariffs good because Chinese products are made with slave labour" (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From what I've seen this seems to be the main talking point American chuds have landed on to defend the tariffs and to dunk on other Americans who are upset about no longer being able to buy shit on Temu, etc

It's pretty rich to accuse other countries of using slave labour for Burgerlanders in general but doubly rich for Republicans to pretend to give a shit about labour laws, working conditions, etc

It's also interesting how widespread the idea of Chinese slave labour is in the West and to contrast it with how Japan and Korea's awful work cultures get treated

China = the totalitarian communist government forces the entire country into slavery

Japan and Korea = those Asians just love working really hard or something

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

The US uses slave labour

Even outside of prison labour too. Didn't Nestle get caught using child slaves a couple years ago?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nestlé got taken to court over using child slave labor and the US Supreme Court ruled child slaves in other countries were not protected under the constitution and companies weren't liable for things that didn't happen on US soil or didn't involve US citizens.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Evil

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't know if this is a thing in the US but in Denmark I've seen prison/slave labour being advertised as something positive, like you would for an organic or "fair trade" product, like prison/slave labour is some kind of charity to be supported by ethics-conscious consumers. When you buy or seell a sun chair emblazoned with "Made by prisoners in Danish prisons" in big bold letters you're proud of what you're doing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Danish prison workers have more rights than the american unprisoned worker

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think that’s a British company but fair play. And same shit, different smell.

Edit: “same” was missing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

They’re actually Swiss but yeah you get it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the clarification