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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

I'm not shocked. Just disgusted.

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People don't pick cotton anymore in the first place. Machines do it now and have been for over 50 years.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Her point was it’s black people’s turn to be masters. There should be no masters, and no slaves, period.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Superb projection there bud.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

When education isn't liberating the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor

[-] deeferg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Lawdoggo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] chillBurner@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Hot Wheels was cool insult, yeah

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

The White master told me that it is our time to man the whip

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Breaking news the Capitalist party (D) still using racism to protect capitalism. Next up, the Capitalist party (R) says a bunch of racist shit.

[-] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If machines pick cotton... why do we need migrants? Her conclusion does not follow the antecedent.

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