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the_ignored
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 Posted - 11/29/2007 : 00:05:46
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This has been written up by Ed Brayton of "Dispatches from the Culture Wars" scienceblogs.
Looks like a lot of religious bookstores in the US are going to have to be more careful where they buy their products from.
| I've published the first article on the Chinese sweatshop story at the Michigan Messenger. This story is going to blow up big. Not only are most of the nation's Christian bookstores implicated in this, so are many universities. The University of Michigan, BYU and many others have pins and medallions made by this same sweatshop. |
What does his Michigan Messenger article say? Among other things:
Crucifixes marketed in the United States by a Christian retail group are made in a Chinese sweatshop with working conditions that are appalling even by Chinese legal standards, according to a report by a U.S. human rights organization.
The conditions include 100-hour, seven-day work weeks, mandatory overtime and wages as low as nine cents an hour, according to the report, issued by the National Labor Committee (NLC). The report is titled Today Workers Bear the Cross: Crucifixes Made Under Horrific Sweatshop Conditions in China. |
One commenter has already found one Catholic group trying to downplay this.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
Edited by - the_ignored on 11/29/2007 00:07:48
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chaloobi
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Posted - 11/29/2007 : 07:06:15 [Permalink]
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That's nice.
Well, the reality is religion is a business, part of which is selling paraphernalia to the Faithful. And in US culture the most accepted way to do business is produce your product as cheaply as possible and sell it for as much as possible. Humanitarian considerations only apply in so far as the buying public knows or cares. So this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone - it's standard US capitalist morality (Christian or otherwise) at work. |
-Chaloobi
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| Edited by - chaloobi on 11/29/2007 07:06:46 |
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Randy
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Posted - 11/29/2007 : 14:43:21 [Permalink]
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| Terrible to hear of those appalling conditions. There must be a matching appalling punch-line in here somewheres....suffer the little Chinese for the sins of the xtians. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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What would Jesus pay-the Crucifix Sweatshop Story
