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I use money and my purchasing decisions to support basic human rights. I am not anti-chinese, but i am anti-authoritarian. I believe we all have a responsibility to stand up for people who have no voice.
The CCP has unquestionably raised the living standards and life prospects for the majority of the country's population, but there have been, and are some, terrible abuses of power along the way.
Obviously, the wealth that we enjoy in Europe now was built on the back of ruthless exploitation of people in poor countries over the last few centuries. There has never been a more ruthless bunch of gangsters than the British East India Company - who got legitimized and became empire. I am not a jingoist, blind to the awful debilitating impact of imperialism. During ww2 Winston Churchill made decisions about army food supplies that created famine and mass starvation in what was British India. The man was a massive racist even by the standards of a very racist time.
I am not seeking to enter into a competition about who has done worse things when. What i am trying to do is highlight bad things happening now - and avoid endorsing them through my purchasing decisions.I haven't had a recent head injury. I've had several in the past. I don't much care for your tone in this regard.
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What i am trying to do is highlight bad things happening now - and avoid endorsing them through my purchasing decisions.
Quite right. People sitting quietly on river banks, mostly not catching fish, is undoubtedly one of the most pressing moral issues we face today. Well done for your principled stance against such an outrage.
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I think this is the dumbest thing I've read this week.
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Of all the bad things happening in the world, Shimano and their contribution to fishing has to be up there. Rep
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i mean i am all for being quirky and vegan or whatever but passing blanket judgement on half of the living world shows severe lack of self awareness