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[-] Juno@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://youtu.be/xUiuVjX2ubQ?feature=shared

Transplant tourism in China ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ

There's only one reason to make a device to give people an invisible lobotomy with that contraption. Transplant tourism is a real thing, if you need a kidney, they'll find some poor Chinese citizen who's broken some menial law or just pull some poor Uyghur, labotomize them, poof there's your kidney match in short order.

Here's a video of what these people are doing https://youtu.be/xUiuVjX2ubQ?feature=shared


It changed my life because after seeing this, for all practical purposes, I try my very best to avoid things from China because I don't want one penny of my money going to support this barbaric inhumanity.

If I see "made in China" I will try my best to find an alternative. For example, I returned to razor mice because they were made in China and got one of the same model instead that was made in Taiwan. It was sort of a luck of the draw, I had to buy two of the same model before I got one from the country that I wanted it from and I returned the one that was made in China. It was about an extra hours worth of annoyance, but it's important to me to keep doing things like that, because of this video. Fuck the Chinese Communist Party and their treating other human beings like animals.

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I think it's important to keep in mind that this happens everywhere in one form or another. For example Frontex, ICE, Solitary confinement and so on. I'm sure you're aware of more examples.

[-] Juno@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

I believe it can be quantified in some way. I live in a country that has no problem with solitary confinement of minors at an early age for decades at a time.

I think that's deplorable and monstrous also. But something about government endorsed (don't tell me the CCP doesn't know about it) organ theft where they kill the donor and keep them alive through controlled brain damage so they can harvest more organs from them. Something about that seems worse to me than solitary confinement, enough that I changed my behavior.

Yes keep it in context, but whataboutism isn't an excuse for objectively dehumanizing behavior from anyone.

(Note: I'm aware of companies and name brands that invest in private prisons, I do my best to avoid those brands, really I try to live my life but do what I can within reason)

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Yes I agree it isn't an excuse. Am I right to be worried about people's frustrations and their resulting anger? Change in China and other places must come from within.

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