A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after he criticized the country’s government in a Facebook post.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Don’t buy clothes made there. You have to send a monetary message to the companies that enable these governments by doing business with them. Money is the only language that anyone in power understands.

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        Hey, honest question, will an individual purchase being cancelled matter at all? Unless someone is on the board for government policy or maybe if you’re like a garment importer or something maybe you can hit em where it hurts but otherwise i feel like this is just some wishful thinking.

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          As a solitary individual? Not even a little bit. But if enough individuals make a stand, it gets noticed. Without a marketing campaign to raise awareness there wouldn’t be a significant impact. But you at least know that you’re not personally supporting such behavior. If enough people make a similar decision then it could get some exposure and gain traction. There are a lot of companies I won’t do business with because of their ethics. They don’t care, but I do. So I guess I’m saying there are two parts to it, your personal choices, and a movement that actually impacts the companies and country. The latter is a full-time job to enact, the former is something you can easily control.

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      It’s certainly not the oppressive government that is to blame or morally scold here. Definitely. It must be the person just voicing their frustration with it that’s the problem. Absolutely.

      Really - just re-read what kind of BS you’re saying.