Windknight said:
your reaching if you want me to read those tweets as wrong or bad. He may not be polite about it, but that doesn't make him wrong. Diversity IS the futre, and white supremacy is holding everyone back.
Yes, they are wrong-headed, and "diversity" as Bob sees it is in fact a
weapon of white supremacy. Bob demonstrates a staggering lack of understanding of even basic IPE, to understand why or how. Let me just give you
one example.
Prior to NAFTA, most agriculture in Mexico was based on the ejido system -- communal subsistence farming. The ejido system was guaranteed and protected by the Mexican constitution. The US and Canada used the Mexican debt crisis (unrelated to the ejido system) to strongarm Mexico into ratifying NAFTA, and a precondition for the Mexican government was the repeal of Constitutional protections of the ejido system.
When Mexico entered into NAFTA, heavily-subsidized US agricultural products flooded across the border and Mexican farmers -- which by the way were largely indigenous peoples -- couldn't compete. Because they couldn't compete, these farmers had to either abandon their land, or lost it in naked land grabs by the Mexican government on behalf of large multi-nationals. To find work to live, these displaced peoples had to either go to the new maquiladoras or cities to work in some of the most abhorrent conditions one can find in an industrialized country, or come here to the US work at a pittance in our agricultural and service sectors as a permanent economic servitor class.
You don't want to sleep tonight, go look up working and environmental conditions in the maquiladora zone. It's some straight-up Upton Sinclair shit. That shit still goes on today, and not only is it what Bob (
I hope) supports out of raw ignorance and ideological zeal, it's the people living and working in those conditions who are most at-risk by his much-beloved automation.
Bob supports free trade and open borders? Well, that's the face of it.