For those who’ve missed the latest MAGA infighting, good. It’s so humiliating. The quick model is that it’s a bit sport of Wealthy Bigot, Poor Bigot. Wealthy Bigots like Elon Musk and Trump are embracing one thing referred to as H-1B visa, permitting them to make use of individuals from different nations—the overwhelming majority of which aren’t white—to work for decrease wages and longer hours. Then, by comparability, there’s what we’ll name the Poor Bigots, who don’t have sufficient wealth to massively profit from their racism and wish all non-white immigrants gone.
Disharmony ensues. Group Wealthy Bigot claims its exploitation of international staff is definitely good for (white) America. Group Poor Bigot expresses the acquainted considerations about such-and-such marginalized group already having it too good, how they’re going to push white individuals out, take over the nation and so forth. You’ve heard it earlier than.
How will this all play out? Effectively, Wealthy Bigot, Poor Bigot is a sport they’ve been taking part in on this nation for longer than you may suppose so, there are many clues!
In 1832, a politician named Thomas Marshall delivered this speech to the Virginia Home of Delegates calling for an finish to slavery. Marshall was “Against slavery as a sensible evil,” and whilst you may guess that evil had one thing to do with ethical turpitude or the precise sin of slavery or its demoralizing tendencies, “He objected to slavery, not as a result of it implies an ethical turpitude, or as a result of it’s a sin to be the proprietor of a slave… Neither is it due to its demoralizing tendency that slavery needs to be abolished.”
Despite the fact that Marshall was talking not even 5 months after Nat Turner’s Insurrection, he by some means had the fucking audacity to say, “The negro right here is completely blissful—he’s handled with essentially the most indulgent kindness—he’s required to do the identical work, and no extra, that’s carried out by the white man—he’s clothed with the very best materials of the factories, and he’s fed actually with the fats of the land. It isn’t for his sake, then, nor to ameliorate his situation, that abolition is fascinating.”