“Wants to pick apples.” Come the fuck on. I agree with the point that billionaires are the true threat, but treating migrant labor like it’s fulfilling their life dreams is racist and gross. They undoubtedly want many things, but they’re desperate and they’re being exploited. Let’s not insult them further by pretending they want to be treated that way.
Sure it is. They could’ve said “wants to make a living” or “is willing to do hard labor”, but they didn’t. They framed it as just “picking apples”, and that it’s what the migrant “wants” to do while focusing on the problems that affect them. It might not be what they meant, but it’s absolutely what they said.
Fuckingcapitalists
Don’t migrant workers get work visas for picking fruit?
If those migrants are in your field then I’d say they both probably do. And depending if the worker pays taxes and whatnot… It’s not the same level of harm but it’s not no harm either
I will not forget how Elon forced everyone but work visa immigrants (who didn’t have their Green Cards yet) to stay at Twitter. As an immigrant (and now naturalized citizen) to Canada who also grew up in Dubai (where I was not a citizen either, despite being born there) I felt the pain of the precarious situation that they were. This also made me hate Elon far more than I did already.
