Tuesday, August 05, 2008

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.

2 Comments:

Blogger Walker said...

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.

4:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

5:01 PM  

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