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		chiefalchemist on Sept 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shein and Temu Prices Expected to Rise as Biden Ta... Remember when the politics of this issue was spun as xenophobic? And racist? And now it's normalized, popular and spun as accepted and necessary? Funny how times change... and no one notices?

TheP1000 on Sept 14, 2024 [–]

Is this really xenophobia?

China does not provide equal access to their markets, why should we provide it to ours?

And the specifically pertains to a loophole that would be getting closed for everyone...

chiefalchemist on Sept 16, 2024 | [–]

That's the point. It's not. But it was painted as such because it made for great (cough cough) "journalism".

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