What if you’re going on strike, and your boss hires some scabs to replace you, and for a second there you’re really mad at the government and the policies that allow your boss to hire those scabs, and you’re a little mad at the scabs too, except hold on there partner, those scabs were imported from another country. They’re immigrants. What are you, some kind of anti-immigrant?

This is capitalist bait.

“Don’t criticize my scab labour importation policy, that’s just like racism” this is bait

Not if you’re supporting policies that import scab labour you’re not.

I believe “activist kids from the city” means he’s calling the IWW the rich kids.

But then you’re being reductive, because that person could very well just be taking their money back home with them. Because as you say, it’s not just as simple as that. The person above you has a point.

What about when they’re temporary, and go back home with their money?

What about when they come from a country so desperate and poor that they’re terrified of being forced to go back, and so they’ll do anything for work, even work half of minimum wage? You don’t think that might drive down wages?

What if they’re so terrified that they won’t form a union? Shouldn’t the IWW care about that?

What if this is all a trick by the capitalists themselves?

Yeah this poster is idiotic and hopefully not real. My boss and my government is the problem, for hiring and exploiting the migrant workers who are so desperate that they will work for lower wages.

If we fix the laws so that there aren’t so many desperate poor people to import and exploit, we could solve this problem.

But the IWW is captured and corrupt so it makes sense they would make this.

They absolutely are pushing down wages, especially when they come from poor desperate countries, because they’re in a much more precarious financial position, they’re easier to exploit, less likely to join a union, and most importantly, more likely to work for lower wages.

Separating that, from the notion of racism or people getting mad at the immigrants, and not the elected officials creating the policies that allow your boss to import and exploit people from overseas, is important to working class success.

How did we get so easily baited into falling for this?

Yeah because I could never afford a Noctua fan in the first place.

Yeah that’s what I said, but the capitalists are worried about the opposite.

Fun fact: The reason we call it climate change and not global warming is because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to stop using phrases that they felt might scare the American populace.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange

While you’re worried that “global warming” might sound too confusing to people who exist in the winter, the capitalists were pretty sure it was the phrase that was actually going to scare the working class into action.

A 24hr waiting period to use a competitor’s product has to be one of the most blatant anti-competitive behaviour in history.