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Conveniently forgetting about the Xinjiang Papers, huh? Found an ableist

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 77 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If the Uyghurs mostly stayed in Xinjiang, it was because they were forcibly confined there. But when in fact a great many Uyghurs moved for work across the country, this was evidence of a labor trafficking conspiracyparenti-hands

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Beat me to it.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Ok, but like, what if Uyghurs are working in factories across China? So? Seriously, so what? A factory job is a damn good job. And Uyghurs are one of the (many) people groups in China, so yeah, they probably have jobs. Fucking shocker. That would be like saying American Indians are working in factories. Some probably are, so what?

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All of the pictures in the article are just people working normal factory jobs for average pay or being celebrated and given themed clothes when leaving Xinjiang to work in the factories. There's a video of people walking through crowds with the themed hats and one of them clearly smiles and waves when they notice the camera. Somehow this is evil and not just people traveling together for a business program.

Imagine if every Western business retreat was characterized with atrocity propaganda because all your tote bags looked the same at the mini golf course.

[–] WafflesTasteGood@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

one of them clearly smiles and waves when they notice the camera.

Clearly the old communist brain washing devices are still in operation.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My favorite part is that thanks to China's rail network it's entirely reasonable and even expected for someone to take on a job working away from home, because they can just supercommute via bullet train and come home on the weekends to see their families.

[–] skeletorsass@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

Very true. Current project I go to Gansu mining area often and it is only a four hour train.

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The implication the article is trying to make is that they are being forcibly trafficked by the see see pee.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh I get that, but I don't see how the video of the people comes to that conclusion

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

You're not thinking like a China Watcher that's the problem. See these people doing a normal everyday thing? It's because they know there is a camera there and are forced to act normal or else they'll be disappeared! As soon as the camera was switched off, a group of jackbooted thug cops appeared and beat the shit of out those guys just for existing. That one guy who waved? That was a coded message! If you slow down his wave, you'd see it is actually a morse code SOS signal, indicating that he is in horrible danger and terrified for his life, but forced to "act natural" or else!

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Chinese citizens move from one part of China to a different part of China for employment opportunities. What will we inscrutable celestials do next?

这些.world鬼佬全部都是白痴

[–] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I love how if you've even been paying a passing amount of attention to this atrocity propaganda campaign over the past several years you will have seen a thousand instances of sensationalized claims and accusations that are inevitably walked back a few months later.

But there's just something about the cognitive dissonance of the average liberal who is desperate for a justified conflict with a scary foreign adversary that they are allowed to feel "uncomplicated, nationalistic/patriotic pride" about that makes them keep saying, "sure, you may have fooled me the first 1487 times, but I'm feeling really good about lucky number 1488!"

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile there is an actual evil Nazi regime committing a genocide that we could stop with a phone call, but…

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

They’re being walked back less and less, nowadays they just say something and shut up about it a week later, then it becomes “common knowledge” (it-is-known)

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

When the west forces workers to travel from Poland or Romania to the UK for work it's the freeee market at its best.

When China does it with a state company, it's worthy of horror articles that amount to "The workers are paid, but the conditions they face are unclear" which is a big nothingburger, yes that's a literal quote from the article.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The workers are paid, but at what cost?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Market rate depending on experience.

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

You can hollow out a city’s industry so few people can actually live there and work, so they have to move to find work… but that’s just the FREE MARKET BBY!

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago

Uyghurs working in factories throughout China has been explicit ans intentional national policy in China for nearly a decade as part of their economic modernization campaign in Xinjiang. Aa the article notes this also includes others like Kazakhs, as they also live in Xinjiang. This fact, implies to be salacious, is not nefarious and already well-known.

The other parts of the article intendes to imply or state problems, like forced labor, rely on completely unstated claims referencing "experts" and "human rights advocates, Marco Rubio, and claiming workers migrating follows the " pattern" of forced labor. What pattern? They don't deign to say.

They have literally nothing to go on and so they are instead trying to stretch implicatioms and guesswork (making shit up) as much as they can.

Keep in mind that the groups that worked on tgis article have all carriwd water for the current Zionist genocide and uncritically publish IDF statements as if they are fact.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't click on the thread, psychic damage.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think it ia sort of entertaining, how easy they are to fool. Most gullible, incurious, and arrogant people on the planet.

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The “arrogant” part is so spot on. I know so many Americans who are absolutely clueless about how the world works and yet are absolutely convinced their opinions are correct.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

"two things can be bad at once. the US might be doing bad things right now, but that doesn't mean china isn't evil. we need to criticize both.

now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to vote for a genocider while posting state department warmongering propaganda"

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

Me, when I can't find work in my hometown and have to move across the country

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Chinese Workers Are Moved to Factories Across China to Supply Global Brands"

[–] Des@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

ha! see! they are being forced! wojak-nooo

[–] LoveWitch@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Thousands of young Americans forced into Californian reeducation camps where they are forced to smoke weed and read feminism