Re: Bush down to 33%; public loves posturing xenophobic congress
Nathan Newman wrote:
Why is this xenophobia? You get the same opposition in most cases if a hometown owner is replaced by a New York corporate owner. “Foreign” ownership, whether foreign to a city or state or nation, implies loss of control and less loyalty to the broader interests of local citizens.
Dubai is a caricature of capitalism– an oil company masking as a country run by a plutocratic clan which engages in rape of employees imported to do the elite’s dirty work to the extent that Human Rights Watch has highlighted this repeatedly in reports.
You may claim that Robert Mendendez, the first latino Senator from New Jersey, whose old Congressional district is heavily muslim, is just a racist at heart and that all his stated reasons for opposing the deal reduce to simple xenophobe, but a bit more evidence would be nice.
It was all about demonizing Arabs as untrustworthy terrorists. It was revolting. And why would Latinos be exempt from this? They’re Americans too.
Doug