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I know you don't like him, but John Oliver did a segment about the Uighurs.

Very enlightening since I had never heard of them, but also horrible to know this sort of stuff is going on to a whole group of people just because they are perceived to be different/wrong/damaged in some way.
And apparently Nike isn't the only culprit to use their labor.

(In response to this post by EDGEMAN)

Posted: 07/30/2020 at 3:18PM

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