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Think You Don’t Support Slave Labor? Think Again. You Do.

Alyson Chadwick
3 min readSep 24, 2023

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#UyghurLivesMatter

Slavery, like genocide, is not a problem of the past but surrounds us every day

You may not know it but you have products in your home that were made by slaves. If you have any cotton items, a car, plastic, tomatoes, sugar, and more, you have items that went through Xinjiang, China. That means your purchases helped the Uyghur Genocide. Want to see if you have bought products from companies that use Uyghur #ForcedLabor/#ForcedLabour? Check this out.

A Brief Look at the #UyghurGenocide:

The term “Uyghur genocide” refers to the ongoing human rights abuses and atrocities committed by the Chinese government against the Uyghur people, a Turkic ethnic minority predominantly residing in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. The Uyghur population is predominantly Muslim. The Chinese government is engaged in mass detention, organ harvesting, surveillance, cultural erasure, forced labor, and other human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.

Detention Centers:

Reports have surfaced of the existence of large-scale detention centers, sometimes referred to as “reeducation camps,” where Uyghurs are allegedly subjected to…

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Alyson Chadwick
Alyson Chadwick

Written by Alyson Chadwick

I am a sports and news junkie, writer and comedian. If you like your political commentary with some snark, this is the place for you. http://bit.ly/3HcFKGb

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