Picket-line hypocrisy in Hollywood
What’s the difference between an illegal immigrant on a job and a “scab” that crosses a picket line? After all, aren’t people both merely seeking work where they can find it? Aren’t both willing to toil at a lower wage in an effort to feed their families?
The difference – at least in the ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America – is Hollywood liberalism and the bicoastal 213/212 area-code universes that ideologically feed it.
For what the strike by the WGA has revealed yet again is that outrage among the Los Angeles-Manhattan intelligentsia over corporate greed, unfair labor practices, stagnating wages and vanishing job security is directly related to the income and education level of those threatened.
Consider for a moment the hundreds of thousands of Californians who have been forced from jobs in construction, landscaping, auto body repair, cable installation and a host of other jobs by an alliance of employers and an ethnocentric lobby that’s hungry for demographic power.
These aren’t crop-picker or dishwasher jobs that Americans allegedly won’t do, but, rather, entire skilled and semiskilled industries that have provided the butter and bread for the working-class table.
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Picket-line hypocrisy in Hollywood
Orange County Register
