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Originally Posted by BaddieB
It's kind of like how they are anti-scab, but then proceed to say that (illegal) immigration doesn't suppress wages...how does that work for scabs but not for people willing to work for peanuts?
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This is another element of the left being silly on immigration: they will often prioritize favoring looser borders & more migrants so much that they will violate all of their other core beliefs. You just have a classic example. Another is when socialists attack capitalist ideas of growth and favour "degrowth" & say low birth rates are good because of overpopulation.. and then support massive population growth from more immigration!
In American political commentary I've actually heard some people say that border/immigration is the "— control of the left": in the same way that the American right is so obsessed with the idea of absolute — rights that they'll oppose even basic common sense — controls and even oppose their own core beliefs to enable this position (ie. Will reject banning terrorists from buying — while simultaneously being hardline against terrorism), the American left does the same thing with migration issues.
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