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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] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The hand wringing over Xinjiang cotton is particularly funny considering the history of the US (and I'm pretty sure prison labor is still used to produce cotton in the US)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

And especially since much of the harvesting in Xinjiang is machine harvesting. I think something like 98% of tomato harvesting is doing this way, and other crops have high numbers also.

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

What happened in US history around the production of cotton?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The transatlantic slave trade?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Was that bad?