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Friday, November 30, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Headline of the day
Please take a look. This is so, so true:
America Didn’t “End” Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It
Here's a brief excerpt:
The recent fires that killed 112 workers in Bangladeshi sweat shops making garments for Wal-Mart and other American retailers show how we, today, are frankly more hypocritical and dishonest about slavery than was Jefferson himself.
As are those Libertarians who argue that the Bangladeshis were “willing workers,” when poverty is so severe in that country that working, chained into a firetrap factory, is essential to survival itself. To call the working conditions of much of the developing world anything less than slavery is to ignore the power relationships that keep workers behind fences, locked 24/7 in often-violent dormitories, and the companies that string nets outside windows to reduce worker suicides.
I've actually heard people who think of themselves as having values and a conscience say that they can't justify NOT buying cheap imported stuff -- even when they know full well that workers are exploited and mistreated.
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America Didn’t “End” Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It
Here's a brief excerpt:
The recent fires that killed 112 workers in Bangladeshi sweat shops making garments for Wal-Mart and other American retailers show how we, today, are frankly more hypocritical and dishonest about slavery than was Jefferson himself.
As are those Libertarians who argue that the Bangladeshis were “willing workers,” when poverty is so severe in that country that working, chained into a firetrap factory, is essential to survival itself. To call the working conditions of much of the developing world anything less than slavery is to ignore the power relationships that keep workers behind fences, locked 24/7 in often-violent dormitories, and the companies that string nets outside windows to reduce worker suicides.
I've actually heard people who think of themselves as having values and a conscience say that they can't justify NOT buying cheap imported stuff -- even when they know full well that workers are exploited and mistreated.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Friday, November 09, 2012
Analyzing the Republicans' loss
This is intriguing, actually. Mind you, Cenk Uygur is engaging in some pretty strong schadenfreude in this but listen beyond it, okay?
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Quotation of the hour
In my humble opinion.
"They outspent us, they outlied us, they made it harder for us to vote, and they tried to make our candidate into a Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist. We won anyway.
"They can deal with it."
This "Dave" is the administrator of The Pragmatic Progressive Page over on Facebook.
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"They outspent us, they outlied us, they made it harder for us to vote, and they tried to make our candidate into a Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist. We won anyway.
"They can deal with it."
-- Dave
This "Dave" is the administrator of The Pragmatic Progressive Page over on Facebook.
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Inspiring, actually
Do you think those right wingers who think that money is everything could ever say something like this:
