[Bread and Circuses - Politics and other Silliness]

If you ask President Donald Trump, he isn’t racist. To the contrary, he’s repeatedly said that he’s “the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.” Trump’s actual record, however, tells a very different story. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks, from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US, to suggesting a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage. The trend has continued into his presidency. From stereotyping a Black reporter to pandering to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to making a joke about the Trail of Tears , Trump hasn’t stopped with racist acts after his 2016 election. Most recently, Trump has called the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu” — racist terms that tap into the kind of xenophobia that he latched onto during his 2...

Were minimum wages ever intended to be a living wage? Charles Tips Charles Tips, Founding CEO of TranZact, Inc. Updated Jan 29, 2017 Originally Answered: Does minimum wage imply a living wage? No, it implies a lot of people not working, particularly minority youth. A full 90 percent of economists surveyed regarded minimum-wage laws as increasing the rate of unemployment among low-skilled workers. This is not out of ignorance. The early history of minimum-wage laws is wholly racist, designed to create economic hardship for “undesirables.”     A minimum-wage law was passed in British Columbia, Canada, in 1925 with the intent of pricing Japanese and Chinese immigrants out of working in the lumber industry.     In South Africa’s apartheid era, white labor unions urged that a minimum-wage law be applied to all races in order to keep black workers from taking jobs away from white unionized workers by working for less than the union pay scale.     ...