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> Ah, so you are projecting your own society's ideals onto another which wasn't always how it was. To the extent that those ideals are “migrant worker’s lives
by paulgb 4y ago
> Ah, so you are projecting your own society's ideals onto another which wasn't always how it was.
To the extent that those ideals are “migrant worker’s lives should not be treated as expendable”, hell yes I am. (FWIW I’m Canadian, not American)
Your attempt at positioning that as some sort of cultural chauvinism is weird.
- isthisthingon99 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior
- djkivi 4y agoCanada had its own history of migrant workers. More than 4000 Chinese migrants died building our railroads: https://torontorailwaymuseum.com/?p=1152 https://torontorailwaymuseum.com/?p=1152
- paulgb 4y agoAbsolutely, I don't mean to imply that Canada is blameless, just that my point of view is not a projection of exclusively US-centric values.