They have reported smelly drinking water, moldy mattresses, dusty blankets, freezing air conditioning and officials’ tardy response to requests for medical aid.

One worker in the chat accused guards of pulling their eyes sideways in a racist gesture against Asians. “The racial discrimination and sneering — and how the United States viewed us — will linger long in my heart,” the worker wrote.

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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's only the concept of an immigration plan, no room for thinking before acting, America is gone..

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    More like the illusion of what America claimed to be is gone. It's never really been what it claimed to be, but the mask is fully off now because Trump is incapable of subtlety.

    He is taking it further away from that ideal too, but the ideal has never been remotely close to real.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    This is the third feature of Fascism.

    Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They have reported smelly drinking water, moldy mattresses, dusty blankets, freezing air conditioning

    ... and this was all at the Hilton Four Seasons!

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    Propaganda 101. They spin it in the beginning:

    Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the United States under murky circumstances, they had always planned to return home.

    And then, way further down, they write that there’s no actual evidence that these workers broke any laws:

    U.S. and South Korean authorities have not disclosed the visa details for the 317 Koreans who were arrested on Sept. 4. But five of the six engineers The Times interviewed were on six-month B-1 visas, which allow consulting with business associates. One traveled on the 90-day visa-waiver program called the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or ESTA, which allows travel for business or pleasure. They ​all said they were on business trips since they were being paid by their employers back in South Korea.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This kills the GDP. Good work trump

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One worker in the chat accused guards of pulling their eyes sideways in a racist gesture against Asians. “The racial discrimination and sneering — and how the United States viewed us — will linger long in my heart,” the worker wrote.

    I know I state the obvious, but I can't help myself: This is truly so very shameful.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Isn't south Korea investing ~2.8 billion into another Hyundai plant in the US?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not anymore they're not... Unless it's all talk, but they have seriously backed away from this. It's a proven bad investment

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But I'm pretty sure there was an article that came out days after the raid saying that they just committed to investing another x billion in Georgia in spite of the raid.

    I don't have the link off hand, but someone probably does. Or if not, I could try finding it later.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    There's beauty in that - for the first time, these guys saw honesty from Americans. The mask is finally off.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    nor to study in, live in, visit...

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