SHANGHAI—In an offer promoted heavily on banner ads across the internet, Chinese e-commerce platform Temu began selling Uyghur Muslims for $1.49 each this week. “The special price available during this lightning deal will lower the barrier to Uyghur ownership for consumers everywhere,” a Temu spokesperson told reporters, confirming that more than 100,000 of the subjugated ethnic and religious minorities from the Xinjiang region had been sold so far on the discount marketplace. “You won’t find prices on forced laborers this low anywhere else. When we tell our customers to ‘shop like a billionaire,’ we mean it.” Approximately 90% of Temu users reached for comment complained that the Uyghur laborers they had purchased arrived in such damaged condition that they no longer worked.
Kind of wild to see how they just adopt the exact same lazy bullshit whenever China comes up. Doesn’t matter what outlet it is, it’s like all their China articles are written by the same person, or at least to the same bullet point list. Which might be the case actually, now that I think it about it. Would explain why they always feel generic and lack the usual “voice” of an outlet.