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Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers (labornotes.org)

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Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.

The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The messaging I'm seeing (and assuming that it is what you're referencing) doesn't seem to be arguing against "resistance" it's arguing against "performative resistance". If you don't understand the difference between the two I can definitely see why that would come across as demotivating.

Personally that same messaging you are finding demotivating gives me lots of hope in the future as there seems to be an upswelling of desire to actually fix things and coming to terms with the scope and reality of the situation.

It's bad. The work to fix the last 50+ years of buried/ignored problems is a monumental amount of work, but facing it head on means that we can start making progress instead of just leaving it to pile up further and to get worse.

Hoping this "bot-farm"s perspective helps a bit with the whole "hopeless and helpless" feeling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Lol

Keep your well-meaning sympathy and education.

We're obviously in favor of both performative and non performative resistance. I was the one that brought up the resistance movements that were actually rioting, to a small extent.

Nobody feels "hopeless and helpless" or demotivated. We are feeling that you are trying to create that feeling, unsuccessfully, by saying repeatedly that nothing in America has produced positive change. I'd be happy to have a conversation with you about it, because there are factual things I want to talk about in regards to police killings, but I'm 100% not interested in that if you want to keep strawmanning what I'm saying and weirdly shifting your positions around, for example between "everyone in the US is scared and they won't do anything" and "sure they burned a police station and a bunch of cars and pre-2014 there were sometimes for-real riots in response to police killings, such as in LA or Baltimore, but why does that matter? Why are you bringing that up?"

Actually, this message is another textbook example of trying to shift things around and pretend that one thing is another thing so you can frame the conversation they way you want to. Keep it to yourself.