Slavery screwed over the white working class by undercutting their wages, and now immigration does the same thing.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
We have to ask, since slaveowners were only a small fraction of the population, why did the workers who were harmed not put an end to it?
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Replying to @HbdNrx
We can also ask the same question today. Why aren't ordinary people in all white countries opposing the immigration that keeps them poor?
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Replying to @HbdNrx
(opposing it enough to actually end it, that is. There are many more citizens whose wages are harmed than helped by lower labor costs)
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Drawing parallels between cheap labor immigration and slavery makes progressive heads explode.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Did the non-slaveowning white southerners think that slavery was good for them? Did they hope to one day enter the slaveowning class?
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I assume they believed it was good for them, otherwise I doubt they would have been as willing to fight in the Civil War.
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Replying to @mr_bones_rises
Not unreasonable, but you'd think the population not benefiting from it would have opposed slavery long before then.
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Doubt there was broad understanding of economic principles at the time, so just a moral/ethical argument
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Yes, this seems correct. Not really an understanding of supply and demand or what their interests actually are, just vague moral stuff
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