Posted on 04/16/2021 6:11:12 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne
In 2020, I was forced to stop watching all professional sporting events because of their endless sermonizing from the gospel of the anti-white Black Lives Matter Movement. But as it turns out, the black superstars of the NBA who endlessly cry out ‘racism’ at every turn have absolutely no problem with enriching their bank accounts from Uyghur slave labor in Chinese concentration camps. And because the dollars are flowing, nearly every, single black player in the NBA is keeping their mouth shut about China while profiting from slavery.
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“Stop buying Communist Chinese products!”
A Wal-Mart would mainly empty except for the grocery and plant sections if it did not carry Communist Chinese-made stuff.
We need to stop blaming the Communist Chinese and examine our own inability to outcompete the Communist Chinese on our own turf.
Chinese lives don’t matter to them.
Do not buy ChiCom.
Buy Taiwan!
I have tried to come to terms with it, that BLM and complaints. They state that they should be compensated because their ancestors were slaves. They say that the United States is a country built on Racism and Slavery, and that the nation needs a reset. They openly support and revere individuals whom resist arrest, often armed, known violent criminals, do drugs, and get shot by the police. They claim that ‘rights’ were violated.
What I see, they don’t see. I see comments about former slavery as Mute, because their advocates and leaders support slavery in other countries. I see their disdain for the Constitution and rights that they expect, but deny their victims (whom they burn alive or destroy their livelihoods) those same rights. I see them wish to have rights, that they do not wish for their fellow Americans to enjoy.
What I see is a bunch of angry racist people, in the guise of oppression, being the thing that they say they are against.
“Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1307) prohibits the importation of merchandise mined, produced or manufactured, wholly or in part, in any foreign country by forced or indentured labor – including forced child labor. Such merchandise is subject to exclusion and/or seizure, and may lead to criminal investigation of the importer(s).
“When information reasonably but not conclusively indicates that merchandise within the purview of this provision is being imported, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may issue withhold release orders pursuant to 19 C.F.R. § 12.42(e). If the Commissioner is provided with information sufficient to make a determination that the goods in question are subject to the provisions of 19 U.S.C. § 1307, the Commissioner will publish a formal finding to that effect in the Customs Bulletin and in the Federal Register pursuant to 19 C.F.R. § 12.42(f).”
https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/forced-labor
If you look on the boxes you can find options not made in China even in Walmart.
That is if you ever buy anything but food.
>>We need to stop blaming the Communist Chinese and examine our own inability to outcompete the Communist Chinese on our own turf.
How do you propose ‘competing’ against a country that doesn’t have/enforce any rules against slave labor and very few if any environmental regulations - sure, some of our epa rules are overkill, but I bet very, very few westerners would be willing to live with the pollution levels and utter destruction of the environment that is allowed in communist china, which allows them to produce things cheaply.
Unless americans are willing to pay 2-3X as much for identical products produce in this country (and generally they are not) - I am not sure there is going to be much ‘competition’.
“They state that they should be compensated because their ancestors were slaves.”
They are almost better off being in the USA rather than coastal west central Africa, think Lagos, which would be the case if their distant ancestors were not imported.
Woke NBA millionaires got no time to think about China, they’re too busy lecturing & demonizing the rest of us peons
Black Lives Matter to them. Chinese slaves? Not so much.
The word is hypocrisy. NBA = League of Hypocrisy.
I can only name one NBA player and that’s one too many. Hope they go under.
I do, but every year it gets harder to find US made products.
Methinks the vendors have caught on to this as well, since they have been changing packaging to make it harder to find a product's true origin.
I tried to buy a microwave there but all were made in China. I eventually bought one posted on Kijiji but of course it was made there too. At least I didn’t add to new demand but that was it.
“If you look on the boxes you can find options not made in China even in Walmart.”
If I remember right, about a decade ago imported clothes were made in many countries around the world under a country-by-country quota system.
I still buy some things like underwear and shirts made in El Salvador and sheets made in Pakistan, but China has made major inroads into the “rag trade” in the past decade.
Irony is offer lost on the stupid...
China has made major inroads into flower pot making.
Flower pots are simple products that lend themselves to automated manufacture.
Last time I looked made in Malaysia was an option for Microwaves. Mexico too pops up among TVs.
Well I missed those. Granted the market might be slightly different where I am. Mexican assembled tvs I have seen but I’m not in the market for one right now.
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