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That was a nice comment. Just like rednecks yelling dumb immigrants fix your own country instead of coming here. In the end, all the people, left or right, are
by angry-hacker 10y ago
That was a nice comment. Just like rednecks yelling dumb immigrants fix your own country instead of coming here. In the end, all the people, left or right, are dumb ignorant, bigoted.
- geofft 10y agoExcept that it's quite not true that all people are dumb, ignorant, and bigoted. Dumbness (or more precisely intelligence) has a distribution over the population, and selective ignorance and bigotry in certain ways is correlated with politics. In particular, eligibility for work visas actively selects for non-dumbness: you have to get hired for a job. Eligibility for birthright citizenship does not. So there are solid reasons to believe that immigrants to a country (any country) are statistically less dumb than native citizens. Immigrants also necessarily have more life experiences and more personal knowledge of people of different backgrounds and origins, which makes them less likely to be ignorant and bigoted, too.
- angry-hacker 10y agoStatistically you can guess all sort of things, like whites are smarter than other races etc. All I was saying is that the parent comment was racist.
- mercer 10y agoHow was it racist? At worst it was discriminatory, but then there is literally no way to hire without some degree of discrimination (even if the measure is a perfectly legitimate 'more qualified for the job'). Let's not abuse the term 'racism'.