Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rights abuses in the U.S

Re:Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rig... by pcwalton on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:27PM (#13173546)

> I like how she goes straight from deportation to large-scale human rights abuse. If you deport illegal immigrants (regardless of national origin or faith), you're enforcing the law. Period, point black. To stretch that into human rights abuse is far-fetched at best.

So if something's legal it can never be a human rights violation?

Tell that to the Japanese people we interned in World War II.

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Re:Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rig... by jimmywanger on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:37PM (#13173593)

> So if something's legal it can never be a human rights violation?

I said it was far fetched. Many legal things can be considered morally wrong but without a consensus of what's morally right or wrong, the law is what we fall back on.

What are you proposing, doing whatever feels good at the moment while ignoring the law?

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Re:Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rig... by pcwalton on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:58PM (#13173703)

Thankfully morals don't depend on what is currently popular. Of course, mass deportations are also unpopular.

I'm proposing that we don't tear families apart for no benefit.

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