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No, he wasn't sticking up for anyone but his own corporate interests.I dont disagree with that at all. I often call it white washing or sanitizing their own culture for the same transgressions they want to demonize everyone else for.
But I believe Vivek's condemnation was speaking to the broader group of the American working class as a whole. He definitely wasn't sticking up for the disenfranchised groups hit harder by the gaps, especially knowing his sellout stance on racial & cultural issues.
I can see how their practices for so long have led to this.
But when you mentioned the corporate interests benefitting from exploiting outsiders without protections for native Americans it was just a reminder that the reason American workers don't have protections is precisely because the MAGA America forerunners tore down those protections because they protected non-white Americans alongside white Americans. They were fine with the exploitation of minority workers and minimal protections for them because they thought that they would never see the other shoe drop.
And maybe that would have worked in a isolationist economy but they were too shortsighted to understand the global nature of the world they worked in.
No one has asked me but I have zero sympathy for them in this case. immigrants have said this about the American worker for decades.
Maybe the funniest part of this is me thinking about that Ann Coulter interview a while back where she trashed Vivek right to his face and no one on the far right stood up for him. But now they think his criticisms of their culture are out of bounds.