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One mother's epic Attempt to Boycott China is covered in this article.
This thing is gold. It's drenched with alarmist idiocy, irrational self-imposed rules, and has enough "but I meant well" to absolve Hitler of everything he ever did minus that one painting of a boat.
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“You can’t do this part-time," she said. "You have to fully commit yourself to it. It took over our lives for the year.”
I like the idea that there are people who spend their every moment in concentrated effort towards not buying shit from China.
There are so many things to enjoy about this article. The opening is perfect:
"There’s a package of Hanes boys’ cotton socks on my desk that I ordered online a few weeks ago, but I refuse to give them to my 5-year-old son even though they’d fit him perfectly.
Why? They’re made in China."
It's beautiful. It perfectly captures the image of this woman sitting at her dinner table, a cup of Starbucks coffee to her right, as she grudgingly squints at the bag of socks before her.
She has purchased these socks; the company already has her money. But she will not give in to temptation; she will not abandon her moral grounds. She has established a principle: "China r teh bad." and she will never, never give in.
Her children will go sockless. She will learn to fashion socks from living rock. But as god as her witness she will not, will not allow her children to wear socks purchased from China.
For to do so is to abandon the high ground, to give in, to lower herself.
Her holy war of idiocy and alarmist hilarity is her life's purpose. She will not give in.
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