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What would you say about a newspaper that spread salacious rumors about a foreign country's nuclear weapons program, months before the newspaper's domestic government launched a full scale military invasion? What about a newspaper notorious for promoting narratives that have contributed to homophobia, racism, and moral panics aimed at religious minorities? Or a newspaper that had damning information about domestic leadership and deliberately covered it up until the end of an election cycle? A newspaper that regularly promoted the interests of its corporate sponsors ahead of the well-being of its readership? One that promoted misinformation in the middle of a pandemic? Or one that shamelessly promoted financial con-men in the middle of their most brazen acts of fraud?
Is that evil?
But we have to side with the US, because it is the lesser of two evils! So trust the NYT, uncritically. Again. In this new drum-beat towards war.
You don't have to support any evil. You can choose to not support any of them. Why is it a dichotomy to you?
That's why I cancelled my subscription.
Because the article is arguing for further US sanctions on Chinese trade goods. If you're telling your neighbors, at the point of a US gun, not to buy Chinese products then you're 100% supporting one of these evil institutions.
This becomes even more dire when you're talking about blocking Chinese solar panels and wind turbines so that you can defend US coal plants and gas stations.
What? Not buying Chinese products is somehow evil? I don't understand what you're trying to say. Regardless of what the article is advocating for, it's making a really crucial point about Uyghur slavery, which is fucking evil, and you're choosing to ignore it
When you've boycotted the Uyghurs so you can buy all your goods from occupied Kashmir and the sweatshops of Indonesia and Bangledesh, you're not buying ethically. You're just buying into the propaganda.
Is it? Are we doing anything to raise wages, improve working conditions, or enforce ethical standards on imports at long last?
Or is this just an effort to whip liberal support for Trump tariffs?
Don't try to make this about ethical consumption. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Most Americans don't even KNOW about the Uyghurs in China. Literally any exposure this horrible situation is doing something.
I think I've just come to the conclusion that there is no way you're going to concede the point that the Chinese are committing atrocious human rights violations, are you?
You are actively choosing to support evil right here and now
thanks Weevil, I wasn't willing to argue with the rabble and you have proven more eloquent than I would have