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> Is it really that Americans are just not racist against Australian workers , but are racist towards brown people on work visas? The dogwhistle is signaling t
by falsedan 9y ago
> Is it really that Americans are just not racist against Australian workers , but are racist towards brown people on work visas?
The dogwhistle is signaling to racists exactly this: that removing the ability for spouses on H4 visas to get EAD will reduce immigration from non-white countries. So's your comment.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoThe issue isn't that the immigrants are coming from a non-white country. The issue is that they are coming from a _poor_ country with poor labor laws, and that they're displacing American workers in the process. Australia and other countries have similar quality of life as the US, thus immigration doesn't deleverage American workers like it does with poor countries. You injecting race into the conversation is racist itself, and does nothing to help advance the conversation.
- falsedan 9y agoAll I’m talking about is the dogwhistle, which your comment also has.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoThis is like saying that socialized healthcare is a dogwhistle for communism. It's a modified form of a slippery slope fallacy, suggesting that any movement in one direction will cause an extreme movement in that direction[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
- falsedan 9y agoNo it’s not. Calls for socialised healthcare are not a coded expression calling for the overthrowing of our capitalist overlord via violent revolution. I know it’s tricky because these look similar but please accept that this is a social problem, not a logic problem, and thus traditional engineering argument techniques are completely useless.