I’m curious, tell me more about this (actual question, not being sarcastic)
Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 months agoOne of the reasons they can build their future so quickly is because they were left in a unique position after WW2 to effectively destroy their past.
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 months ago
China was invaded by Japan before WW2. Look up the Rape of Nanking if you want specifics. Once WW2 ended China had a civil war. The CCP managed to win and Mao Zedong ascended to power. He led the Cultural Revolution which basically eliminated the old ways of China to pave the way, over the bodies of millions of people, for modern China.
gurnu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And they have slave labor. Oops, I guess that’s something that shouldn’t be said in a post pandering China
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I’ve been to urumqi, theres no slave labor, its normal industrial farms. Unless youre suggesting the guys driving the combine harvesters or running the factories are secretly enslaved.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
not a downvote either. guess you didn’t say the magic word.
Uyghurs
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The US hates China, hates muslims but pretend to care about those poor Chinese muslims.
I wonder why?
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If you’re USian - you have vastly more domestic slaves (I think you call them prisoners in for-profit prisons) than Uyghur population. Maybe you should do something about it.
If you’re not USian, no rebuttal.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The only country I know taht has slave labor is the US and their barbaric Gulf states friend.
But the poor Uyghurs!!! BS propaganda
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
all the big countries have slave labour by any other name, they all fucking suck
ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s not like workers having to do 2 or 3 jobs in the US just to allow their family to survive are really “free workers”. At least slaves in China seem to benefit the country. In the US, the slaves just benefit big corporations and their shareholders.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Don’t compare struggling to make rent to the prisoners picking cotton by hand in Lousiana.
ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I an not doing any comparison, sorry of this sounded like it.