{"id":69217,"date":"2016-08-01T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=69217"},"modified":"2016-11-19T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T20:58:56","slug":"brave-new-racist-nativist-political-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/08\/01\/brave-new-racist-nativist-political-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Candidates are China-Bashing… and Our Chinese-American Children are Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s all harmless political shenanigans until a racist mob murders\u00a0Vincent Chin<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing how the new figureheads of both major parties are now pretending to oppose globalization, outsourcing, and the corporate \u201cfree trade\u201d agenda that they both have spent their professional lives furthering. It wasn\u2019t long ago that I taught in my stratification class that this agenda was the one thing we could be sure both parties and the big money behind them wouldn\u2019t give up. Never say never, but I\u2019m still pretty sure that\u2019s still true.<\/p>\n

There are humans that are hurt by\u00a0this agenda, but most of them aren\u2019t Americans. If\u00a0politicians\u00a0want to talk about slave labor, exploitation, and environmental degradation in the new manufacturing centers of the world, then I would be happy to listen to them\u00a0talk about the harmful effects of those practices \u201chere at home\u201d too. But if they\u00a0just want to bash China, then that’s\u00a0racist, and no thank you.<\/p>\n

Case in point, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey at the Democratic National Convention the other day. Here\u2019s his speech, followed by some of the text and my comments:<\/p>\n