• tswiftchair@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    How does buying something that’s manufactured in China directly fund genocide, especially if the company you’re buying from isn’t even based in China?

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Simple.

      1. You pay the company.

      2. The company pays the government in taxes or licenses or something of the like. China does not allow them to operate for free.

      3. The government uses the money to fund the infrastructure and personnel for the genocide.

      That dollar you spend may ultimately end up getting used to forcibly “culturally reeducate” Uighurs. If you didn’t buy the product that was made in China, that wouldn’t be the case.

      Now granted, this is indirect. I was incorrect to say direct earlier. And I don’t actually believe this makes a person culpable in genocide. I just also think that voting for Biden doesn’t mean someone wants genocide. If I had to pick however, the purchase likely carries more individual weight.