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The events of the last couple of days have shown me that many ‘nice’, not Republican people want to see where on the pecking order they can place immigrants. Ideally below them as ‘natives’. If we are desperate enough they’ll be happy to toss us a bone. But if we make more money than they think we should, we shouldn’t be allowed to take ‘their place’. We shouldn’t be allowed to be ‘cheap labor’ either.
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io is it okay if I boost this? I think this should be said really loudly but also I don't want to open you up to harassment.
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io but right?! all the white supremacist hierarchical garbage that's usually simmering just below the surface of a bunch of "nice" people is now boiling over.
Liiiiike oh, so, a guy you don't like is an immigrant... soooo you wanna restrict immigration? heeeeey look at that, that's just regular ass bigotry! Kick all the othered people out because one sucks. hmmmmm.
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Musk was able to slide in illegally and then get a post-entrance visa for two reasons: one, he has money, and two, people thought he would make them money. That's it, those are the reasons. It doesn't have shit to do with the immigration system really. and he's an asshole who's actively abusing it against immigrant laborers. I am quite sure the only reason Twitter was still working for a long time was because the people on visas literally could not leave.
I've managed to avoid what, specifically, they're upset about re: Musk and H1Bs (whether it's about the labor he wants to take advantage of without saying "I am going to hire immigrants because they can't quit without facing deportation"... which I'm sure instead he's talking about, you know, 'hard workers' or whatever) or the fact that he came in illegally, but I know they're definitely not mad about the fact that he's exploiting people on visas.