Reply #25: Speaking of "classist stances," your own is shining through very nicely. [View All]

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This post and the previous one assume a middle-class existence that my own original post explicitly disavows. I'm most assuredly not talking here about people with "power and wealth and privilege." I'm talking about people working two minimum wage jobs in order to pay the rent on a broken-down trailer. They are certainly not people with lakehouses and $30,000 weddings. They are the working poor, and this country has many millions of them.

Frankly, I don't see any "anti-immigration rhetorical " in that post. I am not opposed to immigration, and what I am trying to do here is present the perspective of those who are being hurt by the present cheap labor policy. You should understand that, since you love to ask others to imagine what it's like to be poor (another unwarranted middle-class assumption, since I don't have to imagine poverty, having had quite a bit of personal experience with it).

Immigration is most definitely a class issue, and labor is undeniably subject to the law of supply and demand. The bossman is not going to pay ten bucks an hour if he has an unlimited supply of people willing to do it for six. Slinging accusations of racism, classism, and xenophobia around like cheap Mardi Gras beads does not change those facts.