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How true is the claim that China uses child labour? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There was a joke on an Aussie comedy show the other night about Temu amd China using Child labour and stealing your data and I had to laugh considering the West was outright caught using Child slaves for chocolate (Nestlé)

How true is the claim that China does it too?

Even if they do, it's still hypocritical for the West to focus on it without addressing that the West used child labour.

By the way the ruling class in the west is trying get rid of child labour laws. Isn't capitalism great? Send the kiddies back to the mines! Who needs a childhood?

Also as for stealing data? Bruh China doesn't need to steal it, they can just buy it from all the US corporations stealing and selling your data.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

this is something you can be really weasly with definitions about. i mean lets compare framings from western media: "China" uses child labor. technically true enough, there are child laborers somewhere in the country.

but when they catch children working at a meat packing plant in the US, do they call out the US? the US state it was in? even the parent companies? and take care to apply modifiers like "migrant" to the children, so the people the media has wired to disregard crimes against [out-group] can ignore it.

West was outright caught using Child slaves for chocolate

no no no those were Corrupt Developing Nations that did that. Nestlé pinky-promises they send an inspector to make sure the labor is done by adults. rhetorical shell games all the way down