it can very easily be if you realize that the rallying cry is always a smokescreen for racism, which easily takes hold in the weak-minded folks and in fact encourages them to stir up their own trouble while you continue robbing them blind.
"they took our jobs" when people were being laid off by hypercapitalist rich fucks to push them against brown people, for instance. brown people didn't take those jobs - in fact, most weren't taken at all, they just started letting people do the work of three or four people while telling them they couldn't be given raises due to economic uncertainty.
"but the price of eggs" is the one that just got us through the 2024 election, and the end result of that demand happens to be deporting immigrants, naturalized or otherwise. there's no direct link between the cost of eggs and the status of immigrants, after all, but, racism is going to racism when they think the world is out to get them.
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u/llamawolf 1d ago
I know this can’t be the same “they took our jobs!!!” crowd. FFS.