One month ban for pointing out that consumerism bad. What a shithole of a site over there on the grad.
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The assertion that leftists are criticizing only Chinese clothing manufacturing companies for being bad for the environment is an utterly absurd one, especially when Amazon got flak for fast fashion years before anyone in America ever heard of Shein or Temu. Shein gets more criticism now partially because it's so cheap that it makes the problem even more accessible and therefore worse.
Go China for making things cheaper and more accessible to the masses, boo consumerism for making cheap shit that goes in the garbage after one use.
The fact that i got a month ban for that is wild
Yes in general China's relationship with production needs a change but it is just getting into the position to make those decisions and people in China are the ones pushing for them to happen. There is a growing trend in China for hand made things and "slow" products, especially among the youth. China has been doing business as usual to catch up and now surpass the west but they need to start taking the lead on doing things better than the west as well. The single use plastic in China is one example you see literally thousands of different ways each day in China, but in general Chinese consumerism is pretty intense especially for cheap plastic shit that is cute and maybe cool design wise but otherwise could use a big shift in the sustainability/green angle, from material choices to packaging. Luckily that transition will happen much faster and more effectively once it becomes a priority for China.
Like yes, I recognize that the imperialists want to zero in both on untrue criticisms and on criticisms of China that also apply to America and American companies.
But that does not mean criticisms that apply to American companies are to be celebrated or even ignored when they apply to Chinese companies, we just have to be balanced in our attention. And me personally, I hate using Amazon, I hate Amazon as a business, I hate how their return policy contributes to consumerism and also waste.
I hate consumerism. Because I'm a fucking Communist. How's that for balance
Hate to break it to you, but people will still wear clothes and care about fashion in communism
Dishonest and unhelpful comparison
Nothing in the pictured comment suggests they're celebrating it. They're just pointing out the reality that China is doing a thing that the west did but the west only decides to criticize it when China does it. The OP comment in your screenshot is completely correct.
That's a stretch. They don't really make much sense in their sentence formation but it sounds like they said: (western) leftist criticism of China's state of sustainability is "greenwashing" and an aid for imperialism.
I agree in the end any criticism can aid the us. But what do you do? Shein exists, and is bad. It is mandatory for all communists to criticize it.
But what does greenwashing have to do with anything. Criticizing fast fashion is not greenwashing. Sounds like Israeli.