It’s meant to urge caution. Falun gong are an oppressed, openly fascist cult who will earnestly tell you that their leaders have mastered levitation. They are not honest or credible.
They have definitely faced repression by the chinese state but large scale organ harvesting on demand is cartoonish supervillainy that stretches believablity.
Ah, fair enough, I guess whether this is actually happening is a disputed point. Still, from the article it seems like it is not that much of a stretch from what apparently is not disputed about China’s organ transplant practices, which is that there is a lot of organ transplanting going on in China despite a culturally driven absence of voluntary donations, a legalized practice of using the organs of executed prisoners which is officially acknowledged as the primary source of organs, and a market driven method for obtaining them with little accountability.
The commercial trade in human organs has also been a lucrative source of revenue for the Chinese medical, military and public security establishments.[26][27] Because there is no effective nationwide organ donation or allocation system, hospitals source organs from local brokers, including through their connections to courts, detention centers and prisons.[28]
If it’s true that people with the authority to execute prisoners can easily get money by selling their body parts, and there isn’t much oversight, it seems like a natural consequence that they might let financial considerations influence when and maybe even whether to kill these prisoners.
from the article it seems like it is not that much of a stretch
That Wikipedia page reads like it’s been heavily edited by falun gong folks. Most of the references supporting their arguments come from their own sources or the hilariously named “Victims of Communism Memorial Fund”, a right wing US propaganda outlet that is as credible as its name suggests.
But most of the claims I’m talking about, which aren’t specifically about Falun Gong, seem to be sourced from more mainstream sources, and are mostly based on official statements by the Chinese government.
Is that supposed to make this practice less horrifying
It’s meant to urge caution. Falun gong are an oppressed, openly fascist cult who will earnestly tell you that their leaders have mastered levitation. They are not honest or credible.
They have definitely faced repression by the chinese state but large scale organ harvesting on demand is cartoonish supervillainy that stretches believablity.
Ah, fair enough, I guess whether this is actually happening is a disputed point. Still, from the article it seems like it is not that much of a stretch from what apparently is not disputed about China’s organ transplant practices, which is that there is a lot of organ transplanting going on in China despite a culturally driven absence of voluntary donations, a legalized practice of using the organs of executed prisoners which is officially acknowledged as the primary source of organs, and a market driven method for obtaining them with little accountability.
If it’s true that people with the authority to execute prisoners can easily get money by selling their body parts, and there isn’t much oversight, it seems like a natural consequence that they might let financial considerations influence when and maybe even whether to kill these prisoners.
That Wikipedia page reads like it’s been heavily edited by falun gong folks. Most of the references supporting their arguments come from their own sources or the hilariously named “Victims of Communism Memorial Fund”, a right wing US propaganda outlet that is as credible as its name suggests.
But most of the claims I’m talking about, which aren’t specifically about Falun Gong, seem to be sourced from more mainstream sources, and are mostly based on official statements by the Chinese government.