Racist and Xenophobic...or not?
June 17, 2018 6:21 AM   Subscribe

Person A and Person B are having a discussion in a car. Person A says "Abortion culture in the country has allowed for the killing of American workers and then we import Third World labourers to make up for it." Person B accuses person A of being racist and xenophobic. Person A protests that this is merely a fairly benign formulation of economic reality. Please expand in rational, economic, social or other lenses 1) the validity of the economic argument and 2) whether the statement is indeed racist and xenophobic. Take as given that we know this particular forum is likely to give a particular slant of answers.
posted by eglenner to Society & Culture (1 answer total)

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I see two glaringly racist/xenophobic things about the statement: 1. The assumption that it’s bad for “third world workers” to be here at all. 2. The use of the word “importing” when talking about people could be read as dehumanizing.
posted by lunasol at 6:34 AM on June 17, 2018


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