This is an immigration story, not a civil rights story
The Tyson food plant union that voted to cancel Labor Day in favor of Eid for its Muslim workers, what kind of story is that?
Is it a civil rights story? No. Is it a story about changing American culture? Sort of.
Here is the money quote from the article:
Union leaders said implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people.
More than half of the workers at the plant ARE MUSLIM. Read: Immigrant.
Immigration: The killer of American society. It must be stopped.
Is it a civil rights story? No. Is it a story about changing American culture? Sort of.
Here is the money quote from the article:
Union leaders said implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people.
More than half of the workers at the plant ARE MUSLIM. Read: Immigrant.
Immigration: The killer of American society. It must be stopped.
posted by Walker at 1:56 PM
2 Comments:
So what can we do: Outlaw liberals and liberalism?
One of the strengths of our country (and one of the weaknesses) is that idiots can exist.
But immigration can be narrowed.
Legal immigration is fairly narrow as it is. I'm not opposed to getting rid of "bring the whole family" laws that fast-tracks all the "relatives" of a successfully legal immigrant, but the bigger problem is assimilation--abandoning the idea of obligating immigrants to assimilate is a bad idea. And that is the problem. I don't know how to get rid of that, but the two more likely things would be (a) English as an official national language and (b) English-immersion courses for immigrants rather than bi-lingual education. Just fluently speaking the language is a big step towards assimilation.
These companies celebrating Muslim holidays ain't a good step, tho.
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