• @TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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    06 hours ago

    A US State Department “fact sheet” from 2021 that cites no sources. Amazing.

    Anyways, Chinese companies make electric cars in modern factories with normal workers paid for their labor. Y’all are peddling in orientalist assumptions that only work on people that know nothing at all about the country aside from, say, US State Department single page propaganda pieces.

    • @delirious_owl
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      14 hours ago

      That’s valid. Better to cite Amnisty and HRW

      • @TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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        24 hours ago

        Neither of those are exactly quality organizations whose claims should be taken at face value, though Amnesty International has made no claims about slave labor and HRW doesn’t itself have any statements about that so far as I can tell.

        Though this is beside the point as, again, we are talking about EV manufacturing. Please do your best to not support the orientalist implications throughout this thread. If you would like to make a specific claim, go ahead and do so, but be ready to explain it with more than NGO or State Department name dropping.