VW actually wants to unionize its American factory; Republicans freak out.

[Dinner]

What are you talking about?

[giblets]

"Right to work" is a deceptive misnomer; it's an example of dog whistle politics in action.

What is the hidden subliminal message at work here?

[The Mad Monk]

That.

[Zevico]

What is the hidden subliminal message at work here?

If you're not in a right to work state you don't...

[Zevico]

That's the second time I've read that tonight. Did you guys go to a seminar, or something?

Pod people man. Pod people.

[giblets]

If you're not in a right to work state you don't...

Don't what?

[MrFun]

What is the hidden subliminal message at work here?

"Right to work" should actually be called "right to work for lower wages and less benefits."

[giblets]

I'm beginning to think you don't know what the term "dog-whistle politics" actually means in spite of the fact that you keep using it.

[Zevico]

Don't what?

Have a right to work.
At least I thought Fun seems to think Right to Work==attacking democrats for opposing jobs and employment per se.

Now I see he just doesn't understand what the words dog whistle actually mean.

[regexcellent]

"Dog whistle" is something people say to accuse others of being racist/sexist/otherwise bigoted when they're either projecting or just want to make opposing opinions unacceptable in the conversation or some combination of the two. It's a dumb term that suffers from so much overuse it is now without meaning. For instance: wanting a flat income or consumption tax is dog whistle racism because it's not actually trying to achieve an efficient tax code, it's just trying to keep black people down because...reasons.

[Ben Kenobi]

States by black unemployment rates:

1 Minnesota 27.4% 7.1%
2 Michigan 21.8% 11.1%
3 California 21.3% 12.0%
4 Ohio 20.3% 9.1%
5 Indiana 19.8% 8.7%
6 North Carolina 19.4% 10.3%
7 Mississippi 19.0% 10.5%
8 Missouri 18.9% 8.7%
9 Connecticut 18.3% 9.0%
10 Illinois 18.0% 8.8%

Only two are southern - MS and NC. Four are right to work, but only two are right to work and southern. Two are northern, (Indiana and Michigan), with recent right to work laws.

Given that half of all states are right to work, right to work states are less likely to be pits of black unemployment in America.

[Fake Boris]

So far, the Factory workers have obtained 602 signatures against the union out of a work force of about 1500. It looks likely that they will obtain a majority of workers to sign their petition against unionization. This has nothing to do with the State. While true that the State government appears to not want unionization, it is the workers themselves that are leading the charge against unionization.

Perhaps a little research on the subject would be in order for you Oerdin.

Unsurprisingly, 5 minutes of googling showed how much of a gross misrepresentation that is.

[Fake Boris]

So far, the Factory workers have obtained 602 signatures against the union out of a work force of about 1500. It looks likely that they will obtain a majority of workers to sign their petition against unionization. This has nothing to do with the State. While true that the State government appears to not want unionization, it is the workers themselves that are leading the charge against unionization.

Perhaps a little research on the subject would be in order for you Oerdin.

Unsurprisingly, 5 minutes of googling showed how much of a gross misrepresentation that is.

[Dinner]

Pod people man. Pod people.

Funny, from the dumb**** who does nothing but quote hyper partisan and not even remotely creditable blogs.

[Dinner]

Unsurprisingly, 5 minutes of googling showed how much of a gross misrepresentation that is.

It's Plato. He truly is always wrong.