Stonehenge said:

Lets make them stop rounding people up off the streets and forcing them to work in sweatshops. Thats a terrible thing to do, let them find a better job somewhere else.

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They don't round people up off of the streets and force them to work in sweatshops.  They mostly hire young girls who want to live in a city where they can bang random dudes instead of the middle of buttfuck nowhere with their grandparents.  They try pretty damned hard to get those jobs, in spite of the fact that they basically end up being hired because of the fact that their managers like to fuck seventeen year olds.  It's one way to start climbing the corporate ladder, though. 

Factory Girls by Leslie Chang is a pretty good book, on the subject.

ballsalsa said:

simply require that goods sold in the U.S. be manufactured according to U.S. labor laws regardless of where they are produced in the world.  Be like Japan, and require on-site U.S. inspectors to observe and report on whether the law is being fulfilled.  Done deal.  Anyone is free to produce whatever they want, wherever they want, but if they don't want to conform to U.S. labor laws, they'll have to find other customers.  That plan probably only has a 20 year shelf life at this point though.

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CookieCrumbs said:

You think they hire more girls than boys and men and older women? and you/this author thinks they do it so they can have lots of sex?


That's generally not why people move into cities.


And the number of rapes in many such places tends to be exceedingly high.

Not this "I was drunk" nonsense. There was a girl picked up on a bus in some city in India a few years ago and a group of men on the bus raped her, raped her with a lead pipe of some sort, before pulling her intestines out. She died of multiple organ failure some time later. It caused a public outcry and many of the public admitted that there was a serious rape problem and often enough police wouldn't even come out to take a report of rape.

No idea if things have changed. I'd hope so but it wasn't very long ago.



Most of those people live in pretty horrific conditions. Very much substandard conditions to us at the very least. I'm pretty doubtful they willingly do it to bang more people.

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Asante said:

India has a real big racism problem of lightskinned vs darkskinned. Not just the caste system among Indians but African immigrants are actually randomly attacked and beaten to death for no reason other than being black there, so its not just sexism that runs rife there.

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XUL said:

Asante said:

India has a real big racism problem of lightskinned vs darkskinned. Not just the caste system among Indians but African immigrants are actually randomly attacked and beaten to death for no reason other than being black there, so its not just sexism that runs rife there.

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I have also heard about bride burnings in India.

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Citizen X said:

Unemployment is down so it’s only a matter of time until wages improve..

Now we wait 

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koods said:

XUL said:

Repertoire89 said:

Outright slavery might be better

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Remember how democrats were originally slave owners and supporters?

And now they hike up the regulations, which brings about these slavery sweat shops.

What a coincidence!

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Remember when the racist democrats switched parties and became republicans?

I have no idea why conservatives love to bring up this point about how democrats used to be the party of racists. Things changed. The Democratic Party evolved to become the party that supports civil rights. The democrats who wanted to cling to their racist ideology left the party and became republicans, which is why the south is dominated by the GOP. That's some shameful history for republicans, especially in light of the redemption of the democrats

It's really an intellectually bankrupt argument to try and claim democrats are the ones oppressing black people. You should be embarrassed posting such garbage.

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