Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry
by jessaustin on Sunday July 01, 2018 @08:41PM
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Does this sort of slippery-slope crap convince anyone? There are about 3.5M Chinese immigrants in USA right now. Can anyone imagine any sequence of events that would lead to that number increasing a hundredfold in any conceivable period of time? We couldn't get that many if we paid them $10k a head... One wonders what you intend to argue here, because this is nonsense.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry
by coldtea on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:12AM
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>One wonders what you intend to argue here, because this is nonsense.
There are places that have now received (in the span of a few decades) millions of immigrants, despite the countries themselves originally being in the order or 5-15 millions to begin with.
That's the equivalent of 32 million Chinese (or whatever else) coming into the US in 2 decades.
And some of these countries regularly receive hundreds of thousands of people a year still.
It might be nonsense for rural Idaho to conceive that, but it's something that goes on elsewhere.
Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry
by jessaustin on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:28AM
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I thought you were talking about "350 million Chinese"? Exaggeration for effect is fine, but it would be nice to have an actual argument in addition to the exaggeration.
Which nations of 5-15M have gotten "millions of immigrants"?