• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Weird to see these folks described as “Too Racist / Dumb / Weak” when I see plenty of racist, dumb, and weak people in the first three roles.

    I might suggest ICE has a common denominator that isn’t a superficial pejorative. And its that a lot of these guys fail drug and criminal background checks. ICE is becoming the one job you can get if every other HR company automatically trashes your application.

    And before you read that as incitement of ICE policy, you might want to consider how prior iterations of mass incarceration and functional red-lining of professional accreditation might be contributing to a modern era of radicalizing the lumpen proletariat into the fascist labor force.

    Like… why were we forbidding anyone with a pot conviction of getting a job to begin with? Maybe that added to the kindling that created this bonfire. Maybe our dogged economic orthodoxy around maintaining a 3-5% unemployment rate has produced this easily galvenized population of “unemployables” to do all sorts of bad things.

    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      Maybe our dogged economic orthodoxy around maintaining a 3-5% unemployment rate has produced this easily galvenized population of “unemployables” to do all sorts of bad things.

      Sooo … the system works as intended!?