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6. The irony is that the Jenni-O turkey plant near my hometown is staffed largely by Somalis now

Fri Mar 27, 2026, 06:41 PM

Mar 27

My (white) mom used to work there, and man did she bitch about how she had to work with all those (insert racial slur here).

She never seemed to grasp the fact that, without those several hundred Somali workers coming to her town of 1200 people, there wouldn't be enough white employees in the area willing to put up with mediocre wages and shitty working conditions to keep the factory open. The factory is the one of largest employers in the county, and it's loss would cripple the local economy, including the numerous turkey farms in the region (Minnesota is one of the largest turkey producers in the nation).

Farmers NEED immigrant workers, even if their racism prevents them from admitting it.

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