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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
? I'm not a huge fan of his but that's some crazy sensationalist headline. He said the economy defense is the same one the slave owners used. Crap article that reinforces dumb opinions
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Here it is in context in the article... I would argue that the context does not make it ANY better from Suzuki's perspective at all.
Brad Wall: “Whatever it is we agree to going into Paris, whatever we agree to as a country, we need to make sure we understand what impact that’s going to have on jobs. What additional impact will that have on the energy sector, which is already suffering massive layoffs in our country?”
Suzuki: “It sounds very much to me like southern states argued in the 19th century, that to eliminate slavery would destroy their economy,”
That really does strike me as creating a moral equivalence between exploitation of the oil sands and exploitation of slave labour.