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minus-squareIdreamofcheesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down4·3 months agoI didn’t think child labor still existed in China, just harsh labor conditions and low pay. China’s government’s strict control of the media did, however, lead to me not questioning the social credit score thing.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down8·3 months ago harsh labor conditions and low pay As opposed to how it is in the US…?
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down5·3 months agoThey’re both bad governments just in their own special ways
minus-squareTwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down16·3 months agoSame. Not hard to believe when there’s camps for uyghurs. Happy to be wrong.
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10·3 months agoI maintain this, but other comrades like @davel and @yogthos keep better megathreads about this topic. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs
minus-squareDop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10·3 months agoThis megathread is garbage, it lists quora and twitter threads as sources.
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down8·3 months agoTwitter and quora are not sources lol. They’re platforms ppl use, and their posts should be measured by their merits, not where it’s posted.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down11·3 months agoI prefer hearing about it from Marxists far closer to the source, and using China’s own information they publish: https://www.cpiml.net/liberation/2020/08/chinas-concentration-camps-for-uyghurs-in-chinas-own-words
minus-squareSgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months agoI mean america has wage slavery. I just think the detail are just different
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoUSA have literal slavery, and it’s even straight up called slavery in 13 amendment to constitution. Which also makes US afaik the only country that did enshrined slavery in constitution. Land of the free my ass.
minus-squarecoolusername@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·3 months agolabor conditions actually aren’t very bad at all. equivalent to first world countries. pay is relative
I didn’t think child labor still existed in China, just harsh labor conditions and low pay.
China’s government’s strict control of the media did, however, lead to me not questioning the social credit score thing.
As opposed to how it is in the US…?
They’re both bad governments just in their own special ways
Precisely!
Same.
Not hard to believe when there’s camps for uyghurs.
Happy to be wrong.
I maintain this, but other comrades like @davel and @yogthos keep better megathreads about this topic.
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs
This megathread is garbage, it lists quora and twitter threads as sources.
Twitter and quora are not sources lol. They’re platforms ppl use, and their posts should be measured by their merits, not where it’s posted.
I prefer hearing about it from Marxists far closer to the source, and using China’s own information they publish:
https://www.cpiml.net/liberation/2020/08/chinas-concentration-camps-for-uyghurs-in-chinas-own-words
I mean america has wage slavery. I just think the detail are just different
USA have literal slavery, and it’s even straight up called slavery in 13 amendment to constitution. Which also makes US afaik the only country that did enshrined slavery in constitution. Land of the free my ass.
labor conditions actually aren’t very bad at all. equivalent to first world countries. pay is relative