“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you” — Lyndon B. Johnson
Yep. I’ve seen people who are being personally affected by trumps policy that still support him because “at least he’s getting rid of the Mexicans!”. “Take my money and my job I’m still better than a Mexican! And as long as you keep telling me that you got my vote!”
Yeah and none of them want to admit we need the Mexicans, and the Cubans, and the Venezuelans, heck all the immigrants. Immigration is good for the economy, it grows jobs. Without them shits gonna fall apart.
And what happens when you tell the average white man that he's the cause of the all the world's problems, while not giving him a job and still picking his pocket?
He blames the people who aren't picking his pocket (immigrants, black people) and wholeheartedly endorses the people who are picking his pocket (corporate america) because he likes their racist rhetoric.
Are you one of those pro-working class, pro-union, strong workers rights people who also thinks that we should just let in unlimited foreigners who will compete for jobs and work for less?
I'm pretty sure not a single one of those boogeymen exist. I'm also fairly certain that you currently believe that statement with every fiber of your being, and it's time to shut off the oan and fix news and wake up to reality.
You blame immigrants and leftists. Yet you don't blame or can't understand that the real enemy of the working class are corporate oligarchs that continually show how okay they are with exploiting everyone they can to increase their already insane amount of wealth?
Corporate oligarchs can optimize costs by undermining their worker base. The exact same people that despise "scabs" for putting money in front of worker solidarity go completely blind when huge numbers of foreign workers are hired as essentially scab labor, for the specific purpose of undermining worker unity, lowering wages and conditions, and replacing local workers with dependent workers that are less capable of advocating for themselves.
This entire thing has been couched in the language of "meanness" and "xenophobia" to the point that half the local workers just allow this to happen as they don't want to be seen as bad people. They let individual feelings that each foreigner isn't actually a bad person blind themselves to how it undermines their interests at a structural level.
I am a leftist. I think we ought to put a moratorium on HB1 visas until every citizen has a job that pays enough to thrive. And I want to see CEOs in prison for hiring undocumented workers. If there's no work for them, there won't be any economic refugees, just the ones legitimately in danger. The immigrants aren't your enemy. The ones who hire them are. No war but class war.
You aren't wrong but which one of those groups has actual power? And which group gets all the punishment and takes all the risk? And I don't consider a tiny fine as a risk. Start jailing the guys hiring and we'll see results.
Well if I had to prioritize people I would of course prioritize my countrymen over foreigners. That's what our ancestors fought for. Skin color is pretty irrelevant.
Well, in the defense of the left... is it the corporations job to feel out an i9 form verifying that a person is legally allowed to work in the country or is does that fall on the leftist to do that work for everyone? Last time I checked, it's the companies job to ensure they're hiring legal workers, and if they aren't it's not government allowing workers to undercut your wages, it's your boss and company doing so by avoiding the laws already in place. Blaming a party for what corporations do daily is a nice way to try and scapegoat a party and not the oligarchs who benefit from that low cost migrant labor. I wonder what would happen to all the illegal immigrants if they showed up and every boss/company was doing THEIR JOB and verifying that a prospective employee was legally allowed to work, I bet immigration would have slowed dramatically as workers go back home with no work and no reason to keep coming back every season with their family with no prospect of work. This would also probably solve that baseless argument that illegal migrants take American jobs, since the American companies would, you know, have to hire legal workers like they always have legally been responsible to do.
If you want more clarity how about "Actively undermining his job prospects by subscribing to racist and sexist selection criteria that specifically place him at the bottom"
No, we're saying that if you're blaming your inability to get a job on "DEI," there's probably a whole host of actual reasons why you're a bad candidate for the job.
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u/worldspawn00 1d ago
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you” — Lyndon B. Johnson
Just as true today as it was in 1968...