Remembering Vincent Chin
It’s been 25 years since Vincent Chin’s brutal murder by Detroit autoworkers who blamed their woes on Asian imports, and subsequently on Asian Americans … instead of on the Chrysler honchos who thought “capitalism” and “competition” meant “protectionism” and “higher import tariffs” rather than “innovation” and “efficiency.” Detroit couldn’t build a better mousetrap, so it collapsed.
We’re not losing our jobs to minority Americans, much less to immigrants: American corporations are selling our jobs to the lowest bidders overseas. It’s global capitalism at its finest … isn’t that what this war in Iraq is about? Exporting good old American democratic, capitalistic, uber-consumer values, so we can grow more markets to build McDonald’s and Wal-Mart’s in?
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