The article literally has people saying they complained to the police because the black and brown men are "scary"
And here you are claiming there's NOTHING AT ALL wrong with that.
Sure let's just ignore decades of selective enforcement of law to discriminate against black and brown people, I guess "racism is over" because it makes you uncomfortable
...YOU are the one who claimed everyone that was complaining had a legitimate complaint about law and order and enforcement of local codes.
I mean it's literally in the first few paragraphs of the piece that some dude thought the black and brown guys at the car club were "scary" so he reported them.
"Are there some people who might have complained for dumb reasons?"
"dumb reasons"?
I think the term you should be looking for is "bigoted" reasons.
"When you say it's an "educated" guess, educated how? It only seems to reflect the usual bigotry that comes out of the coasts."
I lived first 28 years of my life in the rural south and now live in the midwest.
My entire family and most of my friends growing up are the people you claim I'm bigoted against...
"If you're going to make a statement that sweeping, you really should back it up with credible sources."
The fact that farmers are generally far more conservative and republican than the median voter or average American isn't exactly some shocking new insight.
You seem to have never spent much time around these folks or have done much research on them if this comes as a surprise to you.
It sounds like you are just angry at the mere mention of race.
Like we should just go through life pretending like race plays absolutely no factor in any law, human interaction, or bias unless someone says the "n" word or something.
Given our history as a country that seems INCREDIBLY foolish.
"Sounds to me like those legitimate criticisms are exactly what the "insane Weaver residents" are complaining about."
Really, the white dude who complained to the cops to do something about the black and latino car club because they are "scary" is just genuinely concerned about law and order and the imperative that all minor violations of local codes must always be enforced?
Color me skeptical.
Calling the cops on scary black people for minor infractions of ticky-tack laws is how Eric Garner and many others have ended up killed at the hands of law enforcement.
I don't know what this is about human nature but it's infuriating.
As someone involved in private aviation and small airports I can't tell you how many times people move in right next to an airport that has been there for decades and then complain, protest, and threaten legal action against those very airports because the planes are too loud.
My somewhat educated guess is that these farmers in the PNW don't share the same politics as farmers in the rural south or midwest.
That and Republicans have grown way more hostile to immigration since 2010, so it's an interesting anecdote but not sure how well it translates across the US, where polling shows farmers are overwhelmingly Republican who tend also tend to hate immigration legal or not.
If this is the standard that "they couldn't get hired TODAY" I'm sure that's not a very interesting fact worth discussing.
I mean if we reanimated Big Al Einstein today and he had a blind interview for a tenure track physics position at Princeton Physics dept he would probably fail. The field has changed too much although with months of prep he'd be able to catch up, the same as L & S could for SWE interviews.
What? You honestly think the Stanford PhDs who created Google couldn't get hired as basic SWEs? Seriously? I mean if true that says a lot more about the SWE interviews than it does about Stanford PhDs.
I mean there are Yale JDs that fail the bar exam but no one would claim that the average Yale JD couldn't get hired as a Big Law associate or judicial clerk.
There's not really an "easy" answer which it seems a lot of people trying to get healthy want.
Exercising sucks.
Eventually you get good enough at it that you start to enjoy it-- I LOVE running now--but it's not without a fairly long period of pain and discomfort.
It's EXPONENTIALLY easier to gain the weight than it is to lose it. You can lose the weight through diet alone but that's itself incredibly difficult especially with a life of bad habits.
I'm pretty sure the fact that it's impossible to turn a profit in any of the "family" small scale dairy farms is a little more important than how hard the work is.
And hard back-breaking work is not unique to farming. Plenty of restaurants or other small businesses basically run off owners and family giving dozens of hours of labor every week "for free"
But pointing out there are wildly successful unions filled with hardworking people is "cherry picking"?