Posted on 11/30/2020 2:32:50 PM PST by RightGeek
LeBron James would be proud.
The New York Times reports that Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola are among the many global companies and business groups lobbying Congress to weaken a bipartisan bill that cracks down on human rights abuses and forced labor in China.
“The bill also targets so-called poverty alleviation and pairing programs that ship Muslims from impoverished areas to work in factories elsewhere, which human rights groups say are often coercive.”
For human rights supporters, the bill is great news. For companies that care about their bottom line first, it’s terrible.
The legislation, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, bans imported goods from China’s Xinjiang region made with forced labor. In September, the House passed the bill 406 to 3. Aides say that it has the backing to pass in the Senate and that either the Trump or Biden administration could sign it into law.
If passed, companies would be required to disclose information on their ties to Xinjiang to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
It would “require companies sending goods to the United States to scrutinize those supply chains, or perhaps abandon Chinese suppliers altogether.”
“While they strongly condemn forced labor and current atrocities in Xinjiang,” the Times notes. “The act’s ambitious requirements could wreak havoc on supply chains that are deeply embedded in China.”
Translation: They do care. Just not that much.
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Slaves are suddenly cool again!
Professional athletes who accept millions of dollars from Nike profit from human slavery.
But they’re down with the black lives matter struggle.
Imagine if we were getting unbelievably cheap radios from Germany in the 1930’s made in camps under license of say Westinghouse or General Electric, and they lobbied Congress similarly.
Apple Nike promote slavery.
Democrats want their SLAVES, nothing has changed since 1861
Apple ‘n Nike are “massa” on de planation.
Raise the tariffs. As long as there is any forced labor in China, bump those tariffs up big time.
For human rights supporters, the bill is great news. For companies that care about their bottom line first, it’s terrible. ...Well, well, well. Now let us shift the scene to a century and a half ago:
For abolitionists, the 13th Amendment is great news. For Southern plantation owners that care about their bottom line first, it’s terrible. ...George Santayana, we hardly knew ye.
*PING*
Here we go again
Waiting for Colin Kappernick to condemn Nike slave labor.
These corporations overlook the greatest of human rights abuses in China, but if an American expresses so much as a single “wrong” thought, they support destroying his life. Evil bastards.
It’s always been cool. It was a provision in the Yalta Agreement signed by FDR.
They want to keep their slaves.
How easy it is for the Democrats to fall back into slavery.
Didn’t we have an internal dispute over “forced labor” around 1861??
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