SHANGHAI—In an offer promoted heavily on banner ads across the internet, Chinese e-commerce platform Temu began selling Uyghur Muslims for $1.49 each this week. “The special price available during this lightning deal will lower the barrier to Uyghur ownership for consumers everywhere,” a Temu spokesperson told reporters, confirming that more than 100,000 of the subjugated ethnic and religious minorities from the Xinjiang region had been sold so far on the discount marketplace. “You won’t find prices on forced laborers this low anywhere else. When we tell our customers to ‘shop like a billionaire,’ we mean it.” Approximately 90% of Temu users reached for comment complained that the Uyghur laborers they had purchased arrived in such damaged condition that they no longer worked.

  • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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    27 days ago

    Pretty much ever since a ton of Chinese migrants came and built half our railroads (the Irish built the other half and were hated at the time, but eventually let into the white people club).

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      27 days ago

      Yup. Reading the yellow peril literature about the Qing dynasty sounds exactly the same as the anti-PRC stuff. The republic of China was actually somewhat well liked but only because it was much weaker and pro-US.