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0 pointsjbarham8y ago0 comments

Is 100 million "killed, aborted or neglected" girls exaggerated? Or do you have better sources than the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 (Note that article is from 2010, there have been many more since.)

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aaron6958y ago

Dime a dozen that dispute that figure but my biggest issue is with this comment is -

> to China where parents will pay a lot of money for a black-market ultrasound

No, normal parents don't abort girls, normal parents don't infanticide girls. The Chinese are not some sort of subhuman race that on mass do awful things to their children.

Not a fan of the New Republic but it talks about the issue (and the racism behind it)

https://newrepublic.com/article/133845/truth-chinas-missing-...

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