Yara’s “business” “boutique” is buying clothes from sites like Alibaba and Aliexpress sweatshops and saying they were handmade specifically for her insta company. No. Do not support her business. Aside from that, all her products are NOT vegan or cruelty free. So they’re supporting animal testing. Don’t support them.
That’s all. Freedom of speech!
Edit: Since it’s flying over some people’s heads. The whole freedom of speech is a jab at something Yara said in a insta post lol
Hi Reddit,
Since my first post on this subreddit was able to solve a 20-year mystery for me, I'm hoping you'll be able to help me find another piece of media I've had stuck in my head since I was a kid.
I was born in Ontario in '94 so this would've been on Canadian TV in the late 1990's/early 2000's. I have no idea if this was a PSA, a commercial, or part of a short film as I only remember this one scene. The scene is animated similar to this vignette from the NFB. It takes place in a sweatshop, and a dark-skinned child is working on a machine that punched out shapes from a piece of metal (similar to a punch press). While working on it, he accidentally punches off part of his pointer finger. The boy holds up his hand and looks at his missing finger while tears run down his face. Only like a drop or two of blood comes out of the wound. Later, he is shown with his finger bandaged.
This is all I remember as I only caught part of the program on TV, so I have no idea if it was part of a longer program or just a short PSA. I don't believe there was any dialogue, either just ambient sounds or some sort of music, which means it may have even been some sort of weird music video. I don't remember what channel or station I was watching, but I'm pretty sure it was during the day on a public channel. I've tried searching through the National Film Board of Canada's archives since it's animated similar to the video linked above, but I haven't found it.
I hope you can help solve this mystery. I'm sorry it's not much to go on, but this scene of a boy losing his finger has stuck with me since I was a kid and I'd like to find out where it came from. Please help!
Sources:
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/slavery-and-sweatshops/sweatshop-workers-conditions/story
https://www.measuringworth.com/slavery.php
I'm sure I may have gotten something wrong but I'm sure I'm not far from the real calculation even if I'm wrong.
How can we do this to each other as a humanity? This is so cruel.
I feel like this movement won't be successful unless everyone in the world gets paid a fair share. Otherwise we may be hypocrites by getting ours as a nation while we ourselves continue to exploit cheap Labor overseas where the suffering is out of sight and has no voice.
This movement needs to be greater than that.
I believe this is usually called out as an appeal to hypocrisy fallacy. The argument goes as the following “If I say it is wrong to kill animals for food, but I cause harm elsewhere by buying other products of human exploitation, that doesn’t make killing animals right, does it? It is impossible to cause zero harm, and no vegan claims perfection, we’re just trying to reduce our impact as far as practicable and possible."
But the issue is what people regard as practical and possible differ. If your someone who lives in a community who heavily relies on meat and your family have little tolerance of other diets, I would say that becoming a vegan isn't practical.
From most peoples perspectives i would say cutting out consumption of products from sweatshops is much easier than vegan. But people who advocate for that offer a much less deontological approach to changing the behaviour. Whereas veganism has very little nuance.
Over at r/neoliberal, they’re fiercely supportive of sweatshops and they troll anyone opposed to sweatshops with,”Why do you hate the global poor?”. They seem really ignorant to the working conditions of sweatshops but I’m wondering if they’re right and I’m just naive. I acknowledge that sweatshops pay more than alternatives in poor countries but I don’t think that justifies that their horrid working conditions. All I way improvement in safety standards without it coming out of workers wages, but I’ve been denigrated for even that in neoliberal.
How is that worker's emancipation? Even if they're owned by foreign companies, how is China staying true to socialist principles by allowing such exploitation?
I already have a couple of pretty major problems with China, but one of the main points why I consider it pseudo-socialist is my notion that sweatshops operate there.
So is it true?
I'm looking to have my mind changed about China because Im critically supportive of several socialist and even Marxist Leninist countries (im not an ML) like Cuba, Vietnam and formerly USSR in certain time periods.
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Alright listen a couple days ago i was at apple bees and geuss what some fat bitch came up to me and asked me for 5 bucks for fucking ice cream and i needed to get more sweatshop workers especially kids so i said “hey theres ice cream in my van” and that fat fuck took the bait. When we got to my basement where all the other workers were she didn’t comply so when one of my men got the belt then she was good at the $0.75 an hour job so think about that next time you buy a iPhone we might track your location
On Day 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, NYTW Usual Suspect Kristina Wong began sewing masks out of old bedsheets and bra straps on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. Before long, she was leading the Auntie Sewing Squad, a work-from-home sweatshop of hundreds of volunteers—including children and her own mother—to fix the U.S. public health care system while in quarantine. It was a feminist care utopia forming in the midst of crisis. Or was it a mutual aid doomsday cult?
As the demand for masks abates and we begin to return safely to space, Kristina is beginning to put her life together post-pandemic cult leadership. With hilarity and boundless generosity, she invites the audience in on her work building community in isolation, while reflecting on what we’ve been through and imagining what we want to become. NYTW Usual Suspect Chay Yew (The Architecture of Loss, Oedipus El Rey) directs.
Running time: 01:40:08
(1080p, mp4, 2.47 GB, English subtitles, srt)
Base64 decode: aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZvbGRlci9NdHAwMkFDYSNCM3h6TEpoanRQQWhmaTduV2tKVnB3
Over at r/neoliberal, they’re fiercely supportive of sweatshops and they troll anyone opposed to sweatshops with,”Why do you hate the global poor?”. They seem really ignorant to the working conditions of sweatshops but I’m wondering if they’re right and I’m just naive. I acknowledge that sweatshops pay more than alternatives in poor countries but I don’t think that justifies that their horrid working conditions. All I way improvement in safety standards without it coming out of workers wages, but I’ve been denigrated for even that in neoliberal.
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