Steve James wrote:You might be right there. They said "go back to the reservation." At any rate, I --meaning me personally" remember being told to 'go back where I came from" quite a bit. I'll admit that the people who told me that all had parents or grand parents who weren't born here
Yeah, I remember being told "go back..." many times. One day while working on a Native Housing project on a NWT reservation in the 90s. Such a weird twist to what you wrote just there, eh. I never thought of it as 'racist' since I've never, ever given any paid to that word. People of all ethnic groups say "go back..." to each other all the time. That was the point I was making by posting those links to begin with, but you missed it.
Steve James wrote:That's neither here nor there. Let's say you're right. It wasn't racist
It wasn't. Thanks. You played the 'racist' card a few posts back re: "white nationalist racists". I was just calling it out, and showed in the links how it ain't just one particular segment of your country's population that say that sort of thing to others - contrary to your self-propagandizing. Again, you missed the point.
Steve James wrote:Personally, I see no difference in an American telling another American that he or she doesn't belong is no different from Germans telling German Jews that they don't belong. They had to create a homeland to go to. So, I think what he said was worse than "racist." And, it has nothing at all to do with whether someone loves his country
Congrats, Steve! You got nazi germany into it! That was actually the closest thing to a joke in your post.
Steve James wrote:On FOX and Friends, Geraldo Rivera recounted the fights he got into when he was told to go back to Puerto Rico. The host said, "You could say that to me."
Sure, he "could" say it. I wonder what he'd have said if Obama had told him to love it or leave it. Imagine.
Yeah, Trump's hypocrisy isn't lost on me, buhleeve me. And his stupidity in attempting to rationalize the sentiment in that tweet was just more of the same from him. He did disavow the chanting that happened at his rally, though. I've had a disliking for The Donald since I saw him on Oprah back in the early 80s, but it's kinda fun to have certain people here think I'm one of Trump's "supporters/defenders" while I'm actually debunking the veracity of the claims they make which attribute his presidency to being the cause of some things that have actually been status quo in your country for decades. Like the border patrol checkpoints, the half-truths about where his merchandise is manufactured, the farm crisis, immigration, etc. Their bigotry doesn't afford them an appreciation for what is actually being offered in countering those premises.
Since you brought up Obama, watch video clips of Clinton and Obama as they state their policies/views on immigration, for instance, and compare that to what Trump has been saying. Compare the numbers of deaths in the detention centers under all 3 of those presidents' watches. Orange Man Bad/TDS is just a big eraser, and the cause of much myopia. I have no dog in the fight that's going on in your country. As I wrote *almost 3 years ago, and has since been borne out, the historical significance of DJT's presidency is on the same magnitude of social 'adjustment' as what happened when the Berlin Wall came down.
The so-called 'dogwhistle' seems to be working, though, and the smolletting has begun. Georgia State Rep was prepared to destroy some guy's life for taking issue with her use of the express till. It only rates 4 1/2 jussies. Coulda been five jussies, but it turns out the guy is a trump-hatin, cuban democrat and she got caught in a lie. MAGA hatters can expect no mercy if/when they get smolletted...because of their hat of course.
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