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Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy

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Re: Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy

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Unless I'm misunderstanding you, it's interesting to me that you see arguments and (seemingly) can't consider that it's even possible for them to be genuinely held as first principles, and that they must be motivated by "fear" and "hatred" (as if economic protectionism cannot be based in rationality, it must always be racially motivated).

In the US political example I gave (Lee Atwater), you have a Reagan era strategist who admitted privately on tape that it was racially motivated. And then we have about 4 decades worth of the policy record of what happens when the supposed "small government" advocates get into power. Tell me, why do they end up deficit spending? Is it because they are overwhelmed by the reality of running government? Or is it that th…

So you're telling me their deficit spending proves they're racist?

Re: Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy

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Neither surprising, nor new. This has been going on for years in a number of countries (Spain, Italy, etc...) just so the goods can be marked "Made in *". The TV image of the careful old craftsman hand-sweing your luggage is a falsehood. It's sweatshops all over again. It's even happening in the United States. Louis Vuitton does its repairs with immigrant labor in southern California so it can say the work was done i…

I think Japan, for the most part, has been able to avoid having to resort to low paid immigrant labor for their craftsmanship-centred goods.

Sure, some mass produced items in Japan do use cheap foreign labor but it has not yet bled into their legendary craftsmanship industries.

Re: Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy

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SD has a very dark and disturbing history I think we can all agree to that but they have cleaned up and become a different party then before. They are now for example proponents of "open swedishness" where ethnicity have no bearing on if you are Swedish. http://www.lt.se/opinion/debatt/sd-ar-for-en-oppen-svenskhet "Its overwhelmingly clear the main reason for the party is to turn Sweden into some sort of white nation…

"Its overwhelmingly clear the main reason for the party is to turn Sweden into some sort of white nationalist fantasy where anyone with a brown face is not welcome. "do you really believe this? - yes. Anecdata, what relatives and other acquaintance tells me who votes for the party say that thats what they want. You don't have to scratch surface particularly hard to see statements such as Zlatan is not Swedish, or for…

> Immigration is the only way to save the welfare states all over western Europe since we face an ageing population.

What's the point of immigration in France where unemployment is ~10% and twice that for the younger generation? How _more_ immigration would be a good thing in that case?

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