Why I hate UAW: Because it Breeds Racism

There are many reasons why I hate UAW. Forget about the stereotypes of being an inefficient labor force. Forget what you here on the news about cost structures being completely ridiculous. You can debate that all you want and there are plenty places to debate those points of view.

The number 1 reason why I hate UAW is that imho it's an organization that breads racism in America and particularly hostile to (1) asian-americans and (2) educated individuals and (3) engineers that attempt to innovate, all in the name of "job protection".

So while am I definitely for supporting buying "American made" products in general, or products sold by American companies, I cannot and will not ever support a new product made by UAW, regardless of make or model. That includes GM,Ford,Chrysler (err Fiat I mean) made in the USA, or any Toyota product made in the NUMMI factory in Fremont, California. I have no problem buying a GM Camaro built in Canada, or a Pontiac G8 imported for Australia. But, no sir, never something from UAW here in the U.S. EVAR!


Let's take a trip down memory lane. So who exactly is Vicent Chin?
Well, there's been a lot of articles written about him...

Here's a starter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Chin

But...to summarize.
Two UAW workers back in 82 were laid off, and pissed. They decided that wanted to kick the crap out of a Japanese since obviously Japanese companies were to blame for their job loss. So two guys decide to grab a few baseball bats and beat the shit of of someone asian looking dude they thought looks sortof Japanese...Except, what they did was beat up and killed a chinese-american dude that had nothing to do with Japan, Toyota, Honda. Just some poor dude that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ironically, the two folks are still free Americans, have served no prison time for their crime, as court cases were dismissed based on technicalities.

And ironically, at no point did UAW EVER issue a statement condemning such actions...In fact, quite the opposite. Being involved in several anti-asian watchdog group, we've researched the very policies and antics of UAW and quite contrary some of there messaging is extremely provocative in supporting "Asia-Bashing"....which has the unintended consequences of translating into some Americans as "Asian-looking-bashing"....

This article sums up the state of what transpires from UAW.

http://www.the-spark.net/np683204.html


June marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a 27-year-old Chinese-American draftsman, in Detroit, Michigan. On June 19, 1982, Chin was beaten to death on the street by Ronald Ebens, a Chrysler supervisor and Michael Nitz, Ebens’ laid-off stepson. The two had earlier yelled racist insults at Chin and his friends in a bar where Chin was celebrating his upcoming marriage. After Chin and his friends left, Ebens and Nitz tracked them down and attacked with baseball bats.

Ebens had yelled, “It’s because of you little motherfuckers that we’re out of work.” The two autoworkers mistakenly thought Chin and his friends were Japanese. For them Chinese, Japanese – it made no difference. They were simply repeating the mindless propaganda then being spewed out by the auto bosses and repeated by the UAW (United Auto Workers). Supposedly imports of Japanese autos were the cause of layoffs in the U.S. auto industry. Demanding big concessions in wages and benefits from workers in the early 1980s, the auto companies claimed it was necessary to help them meet the competition from Japanese auto companies.

Not only did the UAW accept the auto bosses’ arguments – and their demands for concessions – it also stepped up a vile anti-Japanese demagogy. The union banned Japanese cars from parking lots at union offices and halls. Some union officials threatened workers who parked Japanese cars at work. Other union officials organized workers to smash Japanese cars with sledge hammers in PR events for the media. And the UAW distributed racist bumper stickers with slant-eyed smiley faces on them.

The murder of Vincent Chin was a kind of lynching, for which the UAW had laid the groundwork.

Twenty years after the murder of Vincent Chin, many more domestic autos are produced in the U.S. – but by many fewer workers. Jobs were not lost to Japanese producers – but to the speed-up drive of U.S. bosses – a drive which the UAW abetted with its racist anti-Japanese sloganeering and the partnership it openly joined with the auto companies. The U.S. auto bosses are the ones who have benefitted from the vastly increased productivity of autoworkers, not the workers.

What the UAW did prepared a tragedy for Detroit workers in many ways. Not only could they not defend themselves from their real enemy, they were dehumanized with at least some of them turned into brutes who carried out a racist lynching – or who applauded it.



...and that's exactly why I will never support UAW.

The Thread that Started it All

This thread discussed on a completely unrelated blog started it all....

http://piggington.com/time_for_jeff_bridges_to_dump_hyundai?page=13

A call for fellow Americans to heckle the sh!t out of Jeff Bridges because he did a Hyundai commercial.

Poor chap.. I didn't really know who Jeff Bridges really was, until folks pointed out he is a famous actor (sorry Jeff, you're slightly before my time)... But, personally as an fellow American, I was quite taken that there are nutjobs that enjoy/thrive on trying to force other Americans into who they can work for, what they can buy, who they can talk to.

My viewpoint isn't that Jeff Bridges is a famous actor...My viewpoint is he is no different from any other American which should have the same freedoms of choice as any other American has, provided he isn't participating in anything (1) illegal or (2) immoral (the latter being a gray area of discussion since it's subjective)...In any case, Jeff Bridges didn't do anything illegal or immoral by doing a Hyundai commercial, so why is he being subjected to this ridicule is beyond me.

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Welcome...Yet another blog that complains about the problems of America

Yeah, I started this blog mainly because I was bored.

But, more importantly, because I started this blog due to a bunch of nutjobs, claiming to be Patriotic Americans, started to heckle other Americans by attempting to restrict/trample/intimidate other fellow Americans from the freedom of choice.

Yeah, it might just start with restricting consumer choices: China-bashing, Japan-bashing, Korean-bashing, Honda-bashing, Hyundai-bashing....

But were do these "Patriotic" americans draw the line? Religion? Pro Choice? Gay rights? Should individuals start encroaching on other people's private lives too?

Hidden in the guise of "American Patriotism" lies a more sinister motive....Conveniently absent from these "American Patriotist" efforts, bashing of foreign made/built products services from western-European countries. What a lot of these American Patriotists don't want to admit, this isn't purely about"Buying American", as they would lead you to believe, it's about bashing the crap out of Asians who have demonstrated success in various industries.

Oh this country hasn't learned damn bit since the days of Vincent Chin, when two ex-UAW workers decided to beat the crap out of this innocent Chinese-American with baseball bats after thinking he was a "Jap".

And so, as we embark on the 21st century with the world economy in the tanks, be prepared and be forewarned...Fascism is alive and kicking in Amerika.