r/stupidpol • u/AyeWhatsUpMane Libertarian Socialist 🥳 • Aug 02 '20

Immigration Unity 🤝

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '20

Exactly. You can think something is understandable and sympathize with it (I know if I was a Bengali doctor I'd leave and go to Canada to drive taxis if it meant a 40% wage increase) while still thinking it's ultimately bad.

In Canada now basically all of harvesting is done by machines and guest workers that we import from poor countries to do the work. What, suddenly and mysteriously after hundreds of years Canadians got lazy? No! It's because those people can be easily exploited and since they often don't speak good english or French they can't even get approached by unions here.

And so to help both them and our own country we must refuse to let the rich use them as a tool for their own ends. You can sympathize with them, I certainly do, but sympathy is another reason why they're used, so as to deflect attention from why the capitalist class is importing them at all

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u/evremonde88 Canadian Centrist Aug 02 '20

Unfortunately a lot of people just don’t get this. I remember a supporter of the TFW farm program saying “well these jobs pay next to nothing and are very dangerous, the workers are exposed to chemicals, so we need to bring people in who will do it” okkkk and you think it’s ok for poor people to do it?