She’s right, machines pick cotton. The cotton gin replaced slave labor because of how efficient it was. Not all agriculture has been revolutionized like this.
Of all the silly shit to have your panties in a twist about, y’all. You got literal nazis sending people to concentration camps talking about how they’re going to force “mentally ill” people to work farms, and you want to imagine up some bullshit to be mad at one of the few democrats that’s been effective lol touch grass
That makes no sense. If machines pick cotton… why do we need migrants? Her conclusion does not follow the antecedent.
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Democrats who say this shit make me sick.
It doesn’t occur to them that, maybe, we shouldn’t have second class jobs for second class citizens and that it’s horrible we use desperate migrants to do the jobs we don’t want to do. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Pay people enough and they’ll pick cotton. Can’t do that, though, so we’ll just traffic desperate refugees over the border (refugees created by US foreign policy!) to do it instead.
You’re describing the Democratic Party’s platform. Join a real leftist party, like the PSL, and you won’t keep finding yourself shocked to hear members of a rightwing party say more rightwing things.
I’m not shocked. Just disgusted.
People don’t pick cotton anymore in the first place. Machines do it now and have been for over 50 years.
Kind of shows how out of touch she is. You’d think she’d bother to know even one thing about the point she’s trying to make.
I mean, her point was that black people aren’t going to go back to being slaves, so using cotton does make sense, but I would have been more direct instead of using an euphemism.
Sure, and it also implies that immigrants are the replacement slaves.
Which brings us back to my point, which is that immigrants shouldn’t be second class workers that we use as the new slaves.
Her point was it’s black people’s turn to be masters. There should be no masters, and no slaves, period.
Superb projection there bud.
so many liberals trot this talking point out with this smug air of superiority over “the racist conservatives” as tho they themselves aren’t ALSO fucking racist conservatives
this lazy pig says “you cant pay us enough to do it!!”— yes they fucking can. you’re telling me if these jobs paid a decent wage americans wouldn’t want to do them? american plumbers are literally willing to swim in oceans of shit and piss for like 47k/yr, you think those people wouldnt be willing to pick strawberries if it paid decently rather than the 7/hr they give the slaves (the undocumented workers) to do it?
i dont know this woman’s background but she spews nothing but bourgeois white supremacy regardless. fuck her and this bullshit speech. immigrants should be here and they should be getting paid fairly for the work they do just like american born citizens should be paid fairly for the work we do- which we arent. almost like these people have never heard of the concept of a wage floor, IE, the wage all other wages are relative to; meaning your boss can pay you shit because someone else’s boss pays them slightly shittier and then your boss can turn around and say “see look i pay you more than them so stop complaining”
“you cant pay us enough to do it!!”
That should be “you won’t pay us enough to do it!”
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cotton picking is already mechanized
U.S. cotton is mechanically harvested using specialized equipment. Seed cotton—fluffy white fiber that includes seeds—is harvested from the field and pressed into round bales or large modules for transport to a gin. During the ginning process, cotton fibers are separated from the seeds, cleaned of foreign material, and pressed into bales of lint. In the United States, a small sample of cotton lint is collected and sent to a USDA classing office where it is graded, thereby providing the quality characteristics on which the cotton is marketed. After ginning, the cotton bales are ready for shipment—usually to a storage warehouse where bales are consolidated before being sent to a mill for further processing into textile and apparel products.
The use of mechanical harvesting rose significantly during the 1950’s, involving nearly half of the U.S. crop by 1960. Virtually all of the U.S. crop was mechanically harvested by 1970. Mechanization of other field operations progressed rapidly in response to increased labor costs, labor shortages, and the need to perform more timely operations on larger acreages. Chemical weed control, which became common in the 1950’s, has largely replaced hand hoeing, reducing labor requirements for this operation.
https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publications/79922/AER-739.pdf
When education isn’t liberating the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
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Holy shit between this and the Governor hot wheels comment recently she’s just showing that she might be just as much a liability as she will be a newfound asset lately. The passion is great, but it feels like there’s not as much of a filter on what she’s putting out there in some heated moments. Not like I’m perfect, I’d probably pull some similar petty shit after enough speeches but that’s why I’m not in government.
Hot Wheels was cool insult, yeah
Governor hot wheels was kind of funny because the resulting bitching and moaning from “the party that wants to say retard again” made for great optics. This is just a tasteless punch-down.
Rep. Crockett last month also faced backlash for referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as “Governor Hot Wheels.”
Not gonna lie I snorted loudly when I read that.
Backlash for what though? Do they not realize how awesome Hot Wheels are? You think if I had a prosthetic limb and someone called me “Robocop” or “Inspector Gadget” I’m going to get upset?
Breaking news the Capitalist party (D) still using racism to protect capitalism. Next up, the Capitalist party ® says a bunch of racist shit.
