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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why? They were immigrants so they could be disposable labor right?

One of the employees who died, Bertha Mendoza, 56, fell off the truck and vanished into the flood, according to Ingram and a representative from Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.

Same with the fucking bridge that got destroyed in ~~Delaware~~ Baltimore and every factory disaster. Immigrants doing the labor that die for our carelessness, and easy to replace.

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

Do you mean the bridge in baltimore? We lost 6 immigrants on that one, all of them with families. It’s heartbreaking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I did. But yeah every time I read an article about some worker dying these days I swear it mentions they were immigrants or are being represented by an immigrant group because they literally didn't have the legal protections themselves.

I'm so tired of it. And hearing that people that died due to negligence of any origin doesn't make me feel great but this is telling of who is considered disposable labor.

If we can't treat people like humans we don't deserve to be relying on their labor.