> The average American does not want to buy stuff from slaves, at any price.
This is a pretty bold claim considering the American history.
> There are a lot of vegans.
No there isn't. Only a small fraction of people are vegans. So I'd say that according to your example, most people in world are meat eaters despite the sufferings of animals.
China is winning at manufacturing not because of slavery. The Chinese infrastructure is advancing much faster than that of the US. I'm sorry but Your fringe view is clearly out of touch with the rest of the world.
The UK kept trade with the US when slavery there was rampant. Any country will have hiccups throughout its development.
It's convenient but counterproductive to categorize every argument against yours as "whatabouttism".
> The UK kept trade with the US when slavery there was rampant.
And we’re I a citizen of the UK in this tortured analogy (with my contemporary morals and all that), I wouldn’t want my money supporting that.
> Any country will have hiccups throughout its development.
Right, but we don’t have to support those “hiccups”. Anyway, China had 60 million hiccups in the last century. They’re all out of hiccup passes.
> It's convenient but counterproductive to categorize every argument against yours as "whatabouttism".
Not every argument, only the ones that start with suggest I can’t criticize China until <other countries that I presumably support> are completely without blame. Such as yours.
This is a pretty bold claim considering the American history.
> There are a lot of vegans.
No there isn't. Only a small fraction of people are vegans. So I'd say that according to your example, most people in world are meat eaters despite the sufferings of animals.
China is winning at manufacturing not because of slavery. The Chinese infrastructure is advancing much faster than that of the US. I'm sorry but Your fringe view is clearly out of touch with the rest of the world.