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Sunday, January 16, 2005Why they hate usInstapundit links a story on how some Americans are "fighting back" against offshoring. They're finding out which Multi-Nationals use out-of-country customer support then making abusive calls: "I have inside knowledge of call centres, having worked in several. It's crucial that the agents be efficient. Barraging them with 60-second calls will ruin their stats and also lower their morale. Eventually, they'll start thinking 'another damn rude American a******' every time a call comes up. All of this will have a cumulative effect. If 100 people across the US would commit to spending 10 minutes a day, we could cripple them, and bring those jobs back to the US.""Why do they hate us?" the liberals asked after 9/11. Maybe it's because every American liberal regards it as his birthright to work in a good American job at a good American wage and to hell with anybody else in the rest of this world. From the farmers to the steelworkers and autoworkers to the techies, there is the agreed upon notion that American products should be sold the world over to make them prosperous and happy, while U.S. markets should be carefully controlled lest these mighty workers have to compete with Asians, Mexicans or even, God help us, the French! (I was living in France when Clinton put tariffs on French steel.) We've heard a lot about cultural sensitivity. We already know that neither the president nor anyone on the right has any. So let's look at what cultural sensitivity is, as practiced by those who celebrate it most loudly. We can do this by looking at just one issue, the treatment of foreigners. Good foreigners 1) An unemployed Mexican in Guadalajara is a fellow human who needs foreign aid. 2) An unemployed Mexican in California is a fellow human who needs welfare. 3) A Mexican cleaning toilets in California is a fellow human who needs state assistance and a driver's license regardless of his immigration status. 4) An employed Cambodian making sneakers for ten cents an hour is a fellow human being who needs to be removed from that demeaning job and given foreign aid. Bad foreigners 1) A Mexican making a living wage building cars in a Mexican auto factory is stealing an American job. He should get back to selling rugs to UAW workers on vacation in Mexico. 2) A Chinese worker in Silicon Valley is stealing an American job. He should go back to China and maybe work on a silk farm so that American-born tech workers can get nice shirts cheaply. 3) An Indian earning a (barely) living wage in a call center in India is stealing an American job. He should put on an orange sarong and earn his living begging for rice from American tourists exploring Buddhism. More succinctly put, a bad foreigner is one who has achieved self-sufficiency by successfully competing in an international market economy. A good foreigner is reliant upon the generosity of liberals who prove they care by passing out money while perpetuating socio-economic structures that assure that they (the liberals) will always be the ones with money to pass out and the foreigners will always be the ones who need it. The people abusing call-center operators ought to be ashamed of themselves. Not only because they're rude and abusive to fellow human beings, but because of what they tacitly admit by this tactic: On a level playing field, they can't compete with Indian call-center operators. They must rely upon sabotage. While we're on the subject, let's try out on more angle on this: Assume: 1) French autoworkers feel like the sale of American cars in France threatens their jobs. 2) They start popping the hoods of American cars and loosening wires or bolts or fussing with gaskets when no one is looking. 3) They (almost) alone know why American cars are suddenly always parked by the roadside in France. 4) Ford and GM, sick of dealing with questions about shoddy workmanship, stop shipping to France and close two plants a piece. In this situation, a) The American liberal celebrates the return of French jobs to France. b) The American liberal says American corporations are stupid, poorly managed and should do something to fix the problem without putting American jobs at risk (without considering the implications for French workers). How many of you guessed "b"? Good. You have passed the reality check. And now you know why they hate us. 
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