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deputychairman reblogged your link and added:
This isn’t fake news and it might well happen again, but FYI this particular article is 5 years old
Oh, yes. Shit, I was on mobile and meant to save it as draft so I could write a whole thing. But. Yes. This was approximately the same time as the Georgia situation I was talking about in my post the other day.
I was discussing this at work with a coworker and he said that agribusiness has relied for a long time on illegal labor being illegal, so they could exploit it; they’ve deployed a lot of scaremongering rhetoric to keep the system from proper reforms, to keep it broken on purpose so that they could keep exploiting these tenuous, illegal laborers who could never really get proper papers to do what they did. The problem now is that the people they’ve scared with the rhetoric are in a position to actually put it into place… and it’s the worst possible outcome, from the ones who originated it and fanned the flames.
I suspect there’s a lot of that going around; all these rhetoriticians who’ve spent so long not in power, being obstructionist, whipping up fervor over things, are now in a position to actually execute the horrible things they’ve been screeching about but never actually doing the math on… because the money’s in the screeching, see.
This isn’t my best-researched post, but it’s been a long, hard month and it hasn’t even been a month yet.
deputychairman reblogged your link and added:
This isn’t fake news and it might well happen again, but FYI this particular article is 5 years old
Oh, yes. Shit, I was on mobile and meant to save it as draft so I could write a whole thing. But. Yes. This was approximately the same time as the Georgia situation I was talking about in my post the other day.
I was discussing this at work with a coworker and he said that agribusiness has relied for a long time on illegal labor being illegal, so they could exploit it; they’ve deployed a lot of scaremongering rhetoric to keep the system from proper reforms, to keep it broken on purpose so that they could keep exploiting these tenuous, illegal laborers who could never really get proper papers to do what they did. The problem now is that the people they’ve scared with the rhetoric are in a position to actually put it into place… and it’s the worst possible outcome, from the ones who originated it and fanned the flames.
I suspect there’s a lot of that going around; all these rhetoriticians who’ve spent so long not in power, being obstructionist, whipping up fervor over things, are now in a position to actually execute the horrible things they’ve been screeching about but never actually doing the math on… because the money’s in the screeching, see.
This isn’t my best-researched post, but it’s been a long, hard month and it hasn’t even been a month yet.
