I don’t think it’s correct to pretend the claim is merely the use of prison labor.
The claim being made is that millions of Uyghurs are being enslaved.
To pretend they mean merely prison labor by criminals is not an honest representation of the claim. They might retreat into that position when forced to rely on evidence because that’s all that likely is true, but their claim is in fact some kind of Nazi-Germany style prison camp system involved millions of slaves. That’s what the BBC has claimed and it’s not honest to allow them to pretend they merely mean prison labor by perhaps several hundred convicted criminals.
I don’t think it’s correct to pretend the claim is merely the use of prison labor.
The claim being made is that millions of Uyghurs are being enslaved.
To pretend they mean merely prison labor by criminals is not an honest representation of the claim. They might retreat into that position when forced to rely on evidence because that’s all that likely is true, but their claim is in fact some kind of Nazi-Germany style prison camp system involved millions of slaves. That’s what the BBC has claimed and it’s not honest to allow them to pretend they merely mean prison labor by perhaps several hundred convicted criminals.