True, but it's ignorant too. I mean, damn, aren't we all supposed to be striving to rise up above barbarism?
If it were couched exclusively in those civil terms without cultural/racial innuendoes, I would probably be more supportive. But I've only heard one complaint against white European immigration in nearly twenty years, when I worked for municipal government in St. Louis during a huge wave of Bosnian immigration. Every single complaint I've heard before or since then was about a non-white group, with some sort of thinly (or not so much) veiled claim that "they" were about to destroy the very foundations of the USA.
Well Petty specifically said "everyone is complaining....here". Clearly he is referring to threads discussing these issue. You should come to PA, where illegal Russians are not welcomed either. They flout the law, rip-off the system, take jobs that an American can do, and have not been vetted (the Russian mafia is REAL, lol). But I do agree with you that there are racial overtones that are perpetuated, though illegal Asians are rejected as well - so all races are covered. American's don't care the race of illegals - if illegal unvetted immigrants coming from "Mexico" to use Petty's example, were mostly white, I think the same outcry would still be heard. There are scarce jobs. The GOVT's resources are at breaking point, homelessness of Americans abounds.... .and yet we are at a point where millions upon millions of que-jumping, unvetted, undocumented people are hiding in this country. People have a reason to be upset.
I see what you mean. In the midwest, people complained about 'Mexicans', 'A-rabs', 'Chinamen' and 'Africans'. On that last term, that's what they said on the citizen complaint lines, although I'm sure they were more "colorful" in private. Never one complaint about the loads of Irish or Polish in Chicago's construction industry (probably because many of them were cousins of citizens). In STL, the Bosnians got hit because of their tradition of slaughtering and smoking goats in their backyards.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/20/israel-netanyahu-african-immigrants-jewish I've read that they're also resorting to eugenics within the Ethiopian population there, just like America did way back yonder http://www.forbes.com/sites/elisekn...d-african-immigrant-women-with-birth-control/
This situation is out of control. I am totally sympathetic to the suffering of Ashkenazis under the Nazis, but I can't support this ethno-state business.
And just WHO do you think the biggest supporter of Israel is? Doesn't surprise me...considering I've seen sites that said the USA supported South Africa during apartheid http://www.salon.com/2011/02/05/ronald_reagan_apartheid_south_africa/ God bless Ronald Reagan He was a saint
I will never understand that. It's cool to be associated with the winning team even if you're not on it?
I think it's called "false consciousness", lol. In my world if you're not 'on' the winning team, you're not 'associated' with it. Lol
I remember chatting with a Muslim inmate(who looked like a very muscular Malcolm X). He(and other Muslim inmates) had often gotten into debates about the issues facing black people. One day, this inmate said that he respected my viewpoint because I feel that everyone is entitled to justice. He didn't agree because he felt the the black people deserve to be on top. He told me that he believes in tribalism in the black community. Tribalism can unite the black community. I guess it could work; if everyone agreed with the ideals and goals. Nationalism is also something else to keep a lookout for.
