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Mynoriti
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Tue Feb-03-15 06:01 PM
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How did the GOP get white ppl to turn on Unions?
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http://s27.postimg.org/b06ohd4n7/obama_2.gif
ScooterBug
Feb 01st 2015
1
Unions were never that strong in the south.
Lardlad95
Feb 01st 2015
2
"the unions got greedy/lazy" line was pushed hard by the neoliberal econ...
anysenserobbed
Feb 01st 2015
3
First, they made it harder for people to unionize
KosherSam
Feb 01st 2015
4
^^^^^
legsdiamond
Feb 02nd 2015
27
beautiful.
BigReg
Feb 20th 2015
58
End of post.
spades
Feb 20th 2015
60
easy, we stopped MAKING things which was where...
PROMO
Feb 01st 2015
5
but what about service jobs, office workers and infrastructural shit?
ConcreteCharlie
Feb 19th 2015
55
like i said, class warfare.
PROMO
Feb 20th 2015
61
NAFTA didn't help either
Mynoriti
Feb 01st 2015
6
^^^
astralblak
Feb 01st 2015
9
Yes, and now Obama and the GOP want to continue
AZ
Feb 02nd 2015
20
That makes sense but now that we are a service economy...
Buddy_Gilapagos
Feb 02nd 2015
24
i guess they'll find a way to hide behind small businesses.
Mynoriti
Feb 02nd 2015
41
small business is the shield that protects big business
John Forte
Feb 02nd 2015
44
yup
Mynoriti
Feb 02nd 2015
45
Haha at Wal-Mart workers unionizing
DeepAztheRoot
Feb 19th 2015
52
Walmart is ruthless against unionization...
PimpTrickGangstaClik
Feb 20th 2015
59
they're masters of getting people to vote against their own self interes...
fontgangsta
Feb 01st 2015
7
biggest political okie doke in 100 years nm.
cgonz00cc
Feb 01st 2015
8
the GOP is on Jedi Mind Tricks shit
astralblak
Feb 01st 2015
10
lots of people still believe that about teachers
cgonz00cc
Feb 01st 2015
13
i'm a teacher bruh. what the GOP did was one of the most
astralblak
Feb 02nd 2015
22
Democrat policies have been anti-union too
AZ
Feb 02nd 2015
21
Dems general pussyass ways have helped the GOP push the narrative
Mynoriti
Feb 02nd 2015
38
all except the police union
neuro_OSX
Feb 01st 2015
11
which is an effective tool of white supremacy.
kinetic94761180
Feb 01st 2015
14
cognitive dissonance.
Binlahab
Feb 01st 2015
12
RE: cognitive dissonance.
neuro_OSX
Feb 01st 2015
15
you think ppl associate unions with black people.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Feb 01st 2015
18
In my neck of the woods yes
DaHeathenOne76
Feb 02nd 2015
34
now they do
lfresh
Feb 02nd 2015
37
yeah, i don't really see that either
Mynoriti
Feb 02nd 2015
39
I think she's in Detroit, though
John Forte
Feb 02nd 2015
40
maybe i'm just removed. when i think union workers i think "joe sixpack...
Mynoriti
Feb 02nd 2015
43
Same here
SoWhat
Feb 03rd 2015
47
im from detroit also and unions make me think skilled trades
cgonz00cc
Feb 03rd 2015
49
I used to as well
lfresh
Feb 04th 2015
51
Absolutely
spades
Feb 20th 2015
62
A lot of people lack critical thinking skills
DeepAztheRoot
Feb 01st 2015
16
The same way they convinced poor yt people to cut food stamps...
Valium
Feb 01st 2015
17
No, they got white ppl against food stamps by describing it as
Buddy_Gilapagos
Feb 02nd 2015
25
White people will fight against their own best interest
Warren Coolidge
Feb 02nd 2015
19
^^ Most Underrated Reply.
Case_One
Feb 02nd 2015
28
Basically
Ted Gee Seal
Feb 03rd 2015
48
Tangling up unions with organised crime went a long way, I think.
TheAlbionist
Feb 02nd 2015
23
they sold the narrative that unions exist to protect lazy workers too.
SoWhat
Feb 02nd 2015
26
they fell madly in love with bootstraps/exceptionalism/joe the plumber
Riot
Feb 02nd 2015
29
how come no one ever brings this stuff up on conservative media?
southphillyman
Feb 02nd 2015
30
The Unions didn't do themselves any favors
John Forte
Feb 02nd 2015
31
funny - i've never heard this story.
SoWhat
Feb 02nd 2015
33
It was a big narrative in the union-busting 80s
John Forte
Feb 02nd 2015
35
oh okay.
SoWhat
Feb 02nd 2015
36
The short answer is privately funded racism
Triptych
Feb 02nd 2015
32
RE: How did the GOP get white ppl to turn on Unions?
double 0
Feb 02nd 2015
42
also, this is why the SEC has come up so heavy in the least 15 years
cgonz00cc
Feb 03rd 2015
50
Plus the VP's get to golf more months out of the year
DeepAztheRoot
Feb 19th 2015
53
Divide/Conquer plus the bootstraps myth
ConcreteCharlie
Feb 19th 2015
54
RE: How did the GOP get white ppl to turn on Unions?
bass219
Feb 20th 2015
56
detroit / reagan democrats + some good background music:
2.tears.in.a.bucket
Feb 20th 2015
57
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