Posted on 03/25/2021 6:02:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nike has long been accused of turning a blind eye to China’s terrible human rights record, at best, while being super woke in the United States.
The sporting goods giant posted a statement questioning and distancing itself from China’s alleged (by the BBC and Reuters) use of forced labor in concentration camps to pick the cotton used in textiles by Nike and other brands. That statement is being met in China with a much more extreme reaction than Nike probably expected.
Chinese fans are up in arms after Nike said it would not use cotton from China’s disputed Xinjiang region, and some are burning their prized kicks.
The sports company faced a massive backlash and boycott on the Chinese social-media platform Weibo after it released a statement highlighting reports of forced labor of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Nike’s statement merely noted its “concern” over forced labor practices in Xinjiang.
“We are concerned about reports of forced labor in, and connected to, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Nike does not source products from the XUAR and we have confirmed with our contract suppliers that they are not using textiles or spun yarn from the region.”
How “autonomous” a region can be when it’s dotted with forced labor camps will be left for other conversations.
Reactions to Nike’s mild statement within China are not mild at all.
“The statement from Nike is f—ing disgusting. It makes me want to f—ing vomit. Nike has the gall to demand that its collaborators can’t use Xinjiang cotton. F— off out of China,” said one Beijing user with the Weibo ID Langli Chitiao.
People began posting videos of themselves burning Nike Air Jordans and Air Force 1s, with some of these videos being reposted more than 100,000 times.
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Nike goes from insulting America and disrespectful of Trump to a meek little mouse in China.
Well, chit,
NIKE pro CommunistChina stance ,
chit, would’a thunk ?
Send What’s-his-nick to negotiate with them. It will be fine.
Nike is bad but these Chinamen are cancer.
I wish we would all f*** off outta China. That place is a hideous, Marxist dump, and we shouldn't be doing any business with them. Let's start with a 25% tariff on all their stuff.
PING!
The China use of ‘two-minute hates’ is just hitting off in the last couple years here.
But it’s been a basic tactic of such socialist tyrannies forever.
well don’t they all? Code Pink, Me Too, the climate change grifters, LGBTQABC “rights” activists all fall short when it comes to standing up to a regime that may just kill them.
Cotton pickin’ Nikes. ;D
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