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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor all those RWNJ's that whine about "illegals" taking their jobs...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/california-farmworkers-wildfires-air-quality-coronavirus?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1Workers who pick our fruits and vegetables are out in the field through wildfire, pandemic, drought or storm, putting their health in jeopardy
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As hundreds of fires burn across California, blanketing swaths of the state in smoke so thick that it muted the sun, low-wage farmworkers continued to toil in the fields, working through grueling conditions, now made even worse by the air quality.
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For all those RWNJ's that whine about "illegals" taking their jobs... (Original Post)
alwaysinasnit
Aug 2020
OP
Every time I buy a container of berries or veggies I think of those workers, hunched
42bambi
Aug 2020
#3
Immigrants throughout our history are the people who do dangerous backbreaking jobs...
Hekate
Aug 2020
#5
dchill
(38,541 posts)1. I'm sure that touches their heartstrings.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)2. They don't care
in fact they would celebrate if any of these workers died in the blaze
42bambi
(1,753 posts)3. Every time I buy a container of berries or veggies I think of those workers, hunched
over for hours and hours in those fields, all so we can have fresh fruit and veggies! I wish I could thank them.
JI7
(89,274 posts)4. They don't care. When say things like this they don't feel compassion. They respond
with things like "they should go back if they don't like it".
Hekate
(90,828 posts)5. Immigrants throughout our history are the people who do dangerous backbreaking jobs...
...that nearly all citizens have the option of not doing any more.
When I hear of Americans whinging like that, I just want to hand them a job application for a meat packing plant or a fruit-picker. Enjoy. Tell your kids thats their summer job.
napi21
(45,806 posts)6. Wee all should thank them! We'd all have a much more difficult time without them! n/t
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)7. All those RWNJ's that whine about "illegals" taking their jobs
are fucking idiots and liars.