The extra craziness are the ones thst were refugees themselves or children of. I know one guy like this and another who’s parents are refugees who seems to not grasp how much his life would be different.
The real craziness is that some 97% of current US citizens (latest statistics put Native American population around 9.7 million, or approx. 2.9% of the population), are essentially children of immigrants. And the very same people boasting about being X percent German/Italian/Irish/etc., are now demanding that similarly immigrants to be deported? The whole American landscape of nationality/ethnicity and immigration status is just laughable.
Yep. Reminds me of a comic with angry 'murican shouting for immigrants to leave and a native american telling him something like “cool, when are you leaving?”
Tbh, the white=good, brown/black=bad type of racism is a very regionalized thing that’s super big in the US but e.g. not as prevalent in Europe.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, Eurpean racists hate black people too, but they hate white Polish/Seribian/Albanian/Romanian/Bulgarian/Turkish/… people easily just as much, and they hate white-looking muslims even more than black people.
Racism and xenophobia is the same thing (as evidenced by both things actually using the same term in most european languages). It’s an “us vs them” thing that separates the majority from any random minority that they can oppress. In the US the minorities were mostly people from Africa, Asia or the Americans, and they had to band together with all sorts of European people to become a majority, but in Europe each country has their own majority and thus they hate on the foreigners from 50km over the border in either direction.
The extra craziness are the ones thst were refugees themselves or children of. I know one guy like this and another who’s parents are refugees who seems to not grasp how much his life would be different.
The real craziness is that some 97% of current US citizens (latest statistics put Native American population around 9.7 million, or approx. 2.9% of the population), are essentially children of immigrants. And the very same people boasting about being X percent German/Italian/Irish/etc., are now demanding that similarly immigrants to be deported? The whole American landscape of nationality/ethnicity and immigration status is just laughable.
I was at the bar the other day… a woman was talking about how she’s 2nd generation Italian and 1st generation Scottish.
5 minutes later she was talking about Trump deporting immigrants and how they need to be off Obamacare and snap.
Just mind blowing.
Yep. Reminds me of a comic with angry 'murican shouting for immigrants to leave and a native american telling him something like “cool, when are you leaving?”
White, white, white…I see a pattern of what they’re really against here.
Of course, Italians didn’t used to be considered white, and the Irish weren’t the good kind of white, but that changed decades ago.
Tbh, the white=good, brown/black=bad type of racism is a very regionalized thing that’s super big in the US but e.g. not as prevalent in Europe.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, Eurpean racists hate black people too, but they hate white Polish/Seribian/Albanian/Romanian/Bulgarian/Turkish/… people easily just as much, and they hate white-looking muslims even more than black people.
Racism and xenophobia is the same thing (as evidenced by both things actually using the same term in most european languages). It’s an “us vs them” thing that separates the majority from any random minority that they can oppress. In the US the minorities were mostly people from Africa, Asia or the Americans, and they had to band together with all sorts of European people to become a majority, but in Europe each country has their own majority and thus they hate on the foreigners from 50km over the border in either direction.
Yeah, importing black people specifically as slaves is very deeply rooted in US culture in a way that it isn’t in Europe.