Bosses arrested over Bangladesh building disaster (via AFP)
Bangladesh Saturday made a series of arrests over the collapse of a factory complex which killed at least 341 as rescuers braved the stench of rotting corpses to detect further signs of life. Twenty-three people were pulled alive Saturday morning from the ruins of the eight-storey Rana Plaza compound…
What's annoying me is how criticism has seemingly automatically skipped to the Bad White Man meme slamming the retailers while leaving out any focus on the sociopathic slave driver who broke every rule while abusing the workers to extract his personal fortune directly resulting in their deaths. No matter how much or how little the retailers paid, you can be sure the factory owner was gouging the vast, lion's share of the deal. But he's brown. And the media seem to find this intimidating. Fact is, he's probably richer than all the executives in the retailers and a 1000 times more culpable..
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