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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > You are equating capitalism with racism?
> No, I think that last bit is equating capitalism with unrewarded labor of
> poor people who don't get to participate in the capitalism they're driving.
> Child labor, "sweatshop" labor, etc. Of course, in a lot of cases,
> "sweatshop" labor is better than the current alternatives in that place.
> It's just a question of whether there would be better alternatives if the
> sweatshop type factories weren't there at all.
> It just happens that Africa has (and always had) a lot of slavery-type stuff
> going on, regardless of economic system being used. It's not racist per se,
> but just a fact that most of the economies where this abusive-type labor is
> prevalent are of a different "race" than the economies that benefit (whether
> it be in china, africa, or whatever).
I was referring to "If they want lunch counters completely free of persons
with dark skin, then the marketplace will provide it."
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- Warp
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