[Simulacra]

This is a wonderful idea! To purchase products made in China is, let's be real, indirectly supporting genocide and human rights abuses. Not buying from China, or anything made in China, is going to be extremely difficult but it's a small step.

[ARandomerDude]

On the other hand, $OTHER_COUNTRY has a history of $BAD_THING, so the only conscientious thing to do is boycott everything their workers produce too.

[bobiny]

Boycotting in this case is a tool to make China stop doing bad things. Germany used to have concentration camps, they don't now.

[dylan604]

Boycotting is not what stopped Germany though.

[bobiny]

Yes, but military confrontation is bad idea in nuclear age.

[drcongo]

You must have studied the Second World Boycott in school?!

[taylodl]

Exactly. Many Americans, for example, seem perfectly content to overlook or ignore the war crime atrocities committed by the United States during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars after 9/11. Reminds me when Jesus asked who do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?

As a Cold War kid I've come to despise this whole WE are the good guys, THEY are the bad guys narrative. It ignores the fact everybody has good traits and everybody has bad traits - that is it ignores the fact we're all human. None of us have the market cornered on doing good. Or doing bad.

[bobiny]

In case of China there are concrete and contemporary things that people don't like. Like concentration camps. I dunno if boycot is an effective tool, but it's something. I think it's more important to stop the crime that is happening at the moment.

[taylodl]

And we locked children in cages and separated them from their parents. You can find something to be outraged about in any country you care to look at.

[bobiny]

Yes and all these issues should be dealt with.