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01-13-2018 09:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by Xaanka
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its dishonest as fuck to say immigrants (from europe and asia) built our country therefore we owe something to immigrants (from latin america and the middle east)
sorry dude but what really have they contributed other than destroying all the non-college young male career paths, spike the cost of education for native citizens and call whitey racist a lot?
these groups contribute little and are incredibly ungrateful for the generosity our country has given them. why would we want even more?
there's no shortage of unskilled labor in the united states; the benefit mexicans serve is that they are an unaccountable workforce that you don't need to insure or pay taxes on who don't count against small businesses when it comes to health insurance. go try telling someone in the rust belt the only thing they need is more mexicans.
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There is elements of truth to this. It is true that Not all these people are contributing, we don't need them, and maybe we just don't fucking want them.
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it comes back down to this BS argument about immigration:
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Originally Posted by Xaanka
(Post 2637949)
youth male unemployment is insane rn because we've given every entry level job in the country to a non citizen, and its unfair to have them compete against people who not only will work for less than is often legal, let alone compete against undocumented people who cost businesses way less simply due to the fact that they're often hired under the table out of the eyes of federal employment regulations. if these people were citizens and employers had to treat them like real employees just like everyone else they would not be competitive in half the job markets they are in. half the reason you see mexicans in construction is so you can have a bunch of laborers while still being counted as a "small business" it's not like they're particularly adept at building things. they're simply cheaper because our country's moved past Sinclair's The Jungle so we have things like employee rights and stuff. surprise, you can't enforce that shit on non cits who can't even prove they ever worked for you. surprise, people who come from shitholes are tolerant of unethical working conditions and business practices because the alternative in their life is to go back to a shithole. surprise, penny counters figured out how to capitalize on this.
in addition its a fruitless argument to try to say there's some huge unfilled demand for unskilled work when AI's around the corner. the best way we can prepare for the inevitable future changes in the employment market is to stop letting people in who are statistically unlikely to contribute anything that isn't going to be replaced by AI in a decade or two. asia/india's adapting and when the time comes they are going to continue sending people worth having here over. i don't see any of these shitholes following suit. just look at the state of south america and the mideast and africa right now.
but really, raising that argument in general is something only one in a cloistered liberal coastal city would say; reality doesn't reflect the assumption that america is just begging for more mexicans when you go outside of liberal enclave cities. sorry but SF and Seattle and LA don't speak for the whole nation.
the only reason it is about race is because the white guilt left has created a system which punishes native born white men by rewarding every other group of individuals in the country. title vii and other laws create inequity which is leveraged to reinforce racial inequality of opportunity through systemic power. more or less it's the exact definition of the nu-left's revisionist definition of racism: prejudice plus power.
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Conservatives do this all the time. As if in this moment -- as we talk about immigration -- nothing else has driven wealth inequality and immigration is the reason for the current economic problems people experience in the country. When in reality, immigration probably accounts for like 3% of the god damn problem. Some people would pay that 3% anyway because they just plain like immigration.
And there are people that just love immigration. They don't think this whole white, black, and brown divide should exist. And believe that we should all come together and love each other -- and immigration is how that is going to happen.
We need to disentangle some of this shit from the immigration issue. Immigration won't end racism or division, and its also not the main reason people feel poor all the time more and more.
This is like abortion....maybe you shouldn't be a Republican or Democrat based entirely around abortion -- because it shit else to do with the rest of the platform. Namely the economic part.
Republicans have damn near all their base convinced this IS why there are economic problems working class white people. Immigration. But they know that's not true. It has way more to do with modern finance, globalization, and the simple fact labor is more plentiful and useless than ever.
It's a great fucking story to sell poor white people on supporting a ultra-hyper forum of capitalism - ill give the spin doctors that.
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