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This appears to be a long-winded telling of the kind of nonsensical crap that has been circulating as of late that tries to convince people a circle is a square
by cb18 11y ago
This appears to be a long-winded telling of the kind of nonsensical crap that has been circulating as of late that tries to convince people a circle is a square, or up is down or something equally preposterous.
How did the descendants of immigrants become xenophobic?
The founders of the USA were not immigrants, they didn't immigrate to join Indian tribes, they were founders of a country. And until very recently, immigrants to the USA immigrated and integrated, they became Americans, they didn't immigrate and expect to receive special treatment because they were a member of group X.
It's not xenophobic to simply not want your country and culture to be overrun with competing cultures. The idea of multiculturalism is nonsense. Cultures can't coexist that's just not how it works, a culture is the dominant way of life in an area, you can't invite another culture to come and live within the confines of another culture, that makes no sense. What is being done in such a case is you are inviting significant changes to the host culture, and it shouldn't be surprising that most people are pretty content with their home culture and they're not receptive to the idea of having foreign cultures thrust into their home.
cannot pay a visit to their home country because they are undocumented
Are you f-ing kidding me? Can't do you something because it is likely to reveal that they are in violation of a law they willfully chose to violate? That's some kind of big problem we should be concerned with?
A nation without laws is no nation at all. What's the point of any country having rules and regulations for the people they admit if people who break those rules are simply overlooked, much less greeted with pity and concern for their plight of possibly getting caught?
When matters such as these are written about in the media why is it that preference is so often given to euphemisms such as 'undocumented' when what they are actually trying to describe is illegal alien?
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Another commenter mentioned the race angle that was brought up in this article, I luckily missed most of that in my brief skimming.
The real race problem that never seems to be addressed, and it's an uncomfortable reality and whatever the solution is, it is not immediately apparent and I suppose that is one reason why there is a near and total blackout on the subject in the national media. But it doesn't explain why the national media tries to portray the facts in a way that is near 180 degrees opposite to reality.
The real race problem is that when it comes to interracial violence, and black on white vs white on black, the facts are black on white racial violence is off the charts compared to white on black racial violence. It's not even close.
- kingmanaz 11y agoThis needed to be said and needs to be heard.
- lambda 11y ago> they didn't immigrate and expect to receive special treatment because they were a member of group X. No one is asking for "special treatment". They are asking not to get special treatment that consists of being killed by police officers. And yes, too many white people are killed by police. The police in the US have both a tendency to shoot too many people, and have a tendency to target too many black people, which both add up to shooting disproportionately many black people. And yeah, the problem is more complex than simple racism by police. There are problems of too many criminals being armed in the US (both black and white), meaning that the police are more prone to shoot in supposed self defense. There are problems of class and poverty, that lead people into violence. There are a lot of complex, interrelated factors that lead to this. But all of that said, it is undeniable that there are a disproportionate number of law abiding or peaceful, unarmed black men who are killed by police in this country. > The real race problem is that when it comes to interracial violence, and black on white vs white on black, the facts are black on white racial violence is off the charts compared to white on black racial violence. It's not even close. Interracial violence is a pretty small fraction of all violence. Most violence is intraracial. Source: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htius.pdf http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htius.pdf (2010, reporting data up to 2005, see page 67); about 42% of homicides are black on black, about 45% are white on white, about 8.8% are black on white, about 3.2% are white on black. If you're white, I'd be a lot more worried about that 45% than the 8.8%. You know what's likely to be the most likely way to avoid getting killed or shot? Not having family members who have ready access to firearms. You are a lot more likely to be shot by a family member in anger than you are by a stranger of another race.
- artimaeis 11y ago>> "The idea of multiculturalism is nonsense" Say that sentence on St Patrick's day sometime and see how much sense it makes. Or Cinco de Mayo. Or eat at a cal-mex or tex-mex restaurant. Here in America we celebrate our multiculturalism. We sure don't avoid it because it's "nonsense". >> "the facts are black on white racial violence is off the charts compared to white on black racial violence" Care to cite that? I'm not sure exactly what metric you'd be citing, but I was pretty quickly able to find that the majority of hate crimes are committed by white offenders: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-offenders https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narrat...