Just read your note regarding the Falun Gong man and alerted my wife by e-mail that the pair of open-mouth Homer slippers under our bed are going out when I get home. Absolutely sickening.
‘If They Knew About My Situation . . .’[Jay Nordlinger]
In today’s Impromptus, I talk a little bit about globalization, and, more specifically, about products from China. I mention that it is impossible to know which products are slave-labor — from the Laogai, or Gulag — and which products are free-labor. I also mention a man I interviewed a few years ago.
His name is Charles Lee, and he was a prisoner in China. (His “crime,” basically, was to be a Falun Gong practitioner.) In between bouts of torture, they made him work. They made him manufacture Christmas lights. (Lovely, huh?) And also Homer Simpson bedroom slippers: You put your foot where Homer’s mouth was.
In our interview, I asked him what he thought of people in the Free West who bought those slippers. He answered, “Oh, they just want the cheapest product. But I feel that, if they knew about my situation, it would bother them.”
Anyway, why do I bring all this up? To share with you a reader e-mail that just came in:
Jay,
Just read your note regarding the Falun Gong man and alerted my wife by e-mail that the pair of open-mouth Homer slippers under our bed are going out when I get home. Absolutely sickening.
Yeah.
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