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The funny thing is that you're not wrong and this is yet another feather in the cap of "foreign labor are literal scabs" argument.





This comment made me laugh. I have not seen the term "scab" since the late 1980s when there were a bunch of union strikes in my area. It is funny to see it applied to white collar (office) workers.

Edit: I found this funny quote describing a scab from the early 1900s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London#Diatribe_about_sca...

    > After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

The history of unions and the past of the AFLCIO is filled with successful lobbying to prevent immigrants from becoming American. They’re not going to stop suddenly today.

Knowing one’s enemy is key to fighting them.




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