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nebkelly t1_iybkgta wrote

Reply to comment by Itchy_Focus_4500 in Forced Uyghur labor is being used in China's solar panel supply chain, researchers say by chrisdh79

I follow US politics pretty closely for a foreigner and it used to be an important topic on the national agenda around the 2000s. It was raised during campaigns, debates etc. Parties had policies. International news ran stories on it.

Misrepresenting it as a southern/border states problem is the level the conversation has devolved to now. This is a group of exploited Americans that is spread nationwide and larger in number than Asians.

I believe the moral failure is simple economics/greed. Removing those workers from the US, or granting them rights and paying them properly and giving them social services, would pretty much tank the US economy. They are responsible for 15% or something of all US GDP.

There is nothing that really compares to it outside of the US and its become a shelved subject because of the economic boon from allowing it to continue unresolved.

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Itchy_Focus_4500 t1_iyblnms wrote

For a FOREIGNER, Whose opinion matters fuck to me, Is based upon “what other people have told me in the past” As opposed to actually living on both sides of the border or living with this shit.

The USA ain’t perfect but it’s at least better than where you’re living. I’ve lived in four countries. I’ve never been anywhere better

You are like a little girl, telling her mother what sex is like, Because you read something about it on the bathroom wall..

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nebkelly t1_iybojbt wrote

You seem to have been triggered pretty hard by someone showing empathy lol. Why are you going into bat for a system that exploits millions of people.

And contributing to the problem by conflating border control (future immigrants) with a humanitarian problem (existing immigrants).

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Itchy_Focus_4500 t1_iybp3o1 wrote

Oh, you got me! Reread my last comment, last paragraph. Good day, and good luck with your life. Try working on whatever you call home and keep up your end of the bargain.

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nebkelly t1_iybpvm4 wrote

So you're now arguing that Americans should not comment about workers in Qatar?

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