• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    9 days ago

    Ideally, you’d boycott Chinese products too.

    I mean, I’m fully aware that “everything is made in China”, but - to me - there’s a difference in supporting a [somewhere]-based company that pays taxes [somewhere] and purchases components/manufactures in China (sending part of my money there), and buying full-on Chinese, and having 100% of my money support a genocidal government.

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      9 days ago

      Your point is valid, but non-genocidal governments are getting harder to find any more.

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              8 days ago

              Alright so we’ll just go ahead and mark you down for “indifferent to Uyghur persecution”.

              Also, the treatment of Uyghurs meets the definition for genocide. Please read the article.

              Those accusing China of genocide point to intentional acts they say violate Article II of the Genocide Convention,[22][23][24] which prohibits “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,” a “racial or religious group” including “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group” and “measures intended to prevent births within the group”.[

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                  7 days ago

                  My bad. I wasn’t aware that real genocides are decided by “respected human rights organizations”, otherwise it’s just a sparkling extermination program. Are you fucking serious right now?

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                    7 days ago

                    Stop trying to devalue to meaning of the word genocide. If an opponent of the West was committing genocide these organisations would be the very first to use the term.

                    Genocide is a crime on Holocaust level specifically focused on exterminating a group.

                    Not every war crime or authoritarian oppression suddenly becomes genocide.

        • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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          8 days ago

          No genocides recently, just massacring millions of their own civilians for having a different belief.

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                7 days ago

                I am sure China has committed genocides in the past but I am also not putting Japan on the genocide list because the rape of Nanking. The only event people keep bringing up regarding China is the Tiannenmen Square riots where less than a thousand people were killed. And even accepting all Western narratives that was certainly not a targeted extermination of a certain population but it would be political repression.

                We are talking about active genocides. People need to stop devalueing the word genocide.

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                  7 days ago

                  I never said genocide I was just pointing out that they’ve done a bit more than just authoritarianism and repression. Tiannenmen square is a blip on the CCP massacres.

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                    7 days ago

                    Germany and America are beating protesters harder than China currently and nobody accuses them of genocide for that.

                    America is directly committing genocide in Gaza with their boots on the ground though. And Germany is heavily complicit.

    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I buy from where is cheaper. I’d buy in Taobao if I could but I don’t know how it works, so, temu and AliExpress for me.

      Besides their packages almost never get stolen by customs in my country, unlike amazon’s