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Good grief - stupid, racist and supremacist all in one idiocy
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,271 posts)nature-lover
(1,469 posts)LakeArenal
(28,822 posts)Im with the Annull Him Now crowd. 👎🏼
nature-lover
(1,469 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Just wow.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)and didn't have the temerity to engage in politics and shit.
onlyadream
(2,166 posts)Thats apparently the litmus test for these morons.
3Hotdogs
(12,393 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)is due to Native American blood, which makes it a real irony about who the "aliens" are.
kag
(4,079 posts)Her maiden name is "Gonzales". Unfortunately, she and my niece and nephew have some harrowing stories about strangers telling them to "go back" to wherever they "came from." Her brother and his kids, whose last names are still Gonzales, get it even worse.
I once had a very interesting talk with her about her family's heritage, and about the morons who confront them. It turns out she can trace her ancestors, who have lived just north of the Rio Grande for many generations, to before--in fact long before--Texas' entry into the U.S. in 1846. I'm guessing a lot of the idiots who tell her to go back "home" have no such strong connection to the land on which they stand when they issue such an imbecilic directive.
The story of the disputes between the U.S. and Mexico, including the years when Texas was an independent republic, are numerous and long, but they all convey the ambitions of the U.S. to grab as much of the land south of the Nueces River as possible, even, for a time, wanting to extend the southern border as far south as to include Mexico City.
My SIL knows her Texas history, but rarely flaunts it in the face of stupid racists, knowing how useless it would be. But the irony is clear. The U.S. was anxious to annex as much of what is now Mexico as possible. So when idiots tell my lovely and wicked smart SIL to "go home" she knows, even if they don't, that she is vastly more at home in South Texas than they will ever be.
Bayard
(22,103 posts)It would be funny.
unblock
(52,257 posts)well, ok, yeah, stupid is a key component of white supremacy....
point is i don't think it's really about any notion that this bigot thinks or cares at all about where native americans come from or belong.
"illegal", in white supremacist code, doesn't really refer to proper documentation under immigration law -- that's just the cover.
"illegal", in white supremacist code really means that *being non-white* makes you a lesser human, if human at all.
it's his race/skin color that's illegal, to the white supremacists.
"here illegally" is setting the stage for removal or extermination of non-whites.
we can call it stupid, but we can't dismiss it. it's not a harmless mistake.
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)Non-Horse culture Native Americans get an extra dose of prejudice to go with it. They don't fit the stereotype of "Indian" (sorry), so the connection between who they are and why they are here is ignored.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Response to MoonRiver (Reply #19)
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pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)and used horses in their work with sheep. They were farmers, not nomads.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)They were brought to the Western Hemisphere by the Spanish, and were subsequently adopted and used by many Native American tribes.
meadowlander
(4,399 posts)they migrated to Asia and into Europe over the land bridge, then later became extinct in North America and had to be reintroduced.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Because these knuckleheads keep being stupid.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread Soph.
Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)My family has been here for 14 generations. I am still descended from immigrants!
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)sent back".
Johonny
(20,854 posts)The immigration issue is typically about people's desire to question those not like them. It generally has little to do with actual illegal immigration or law enforcement. It has to do with people wanting a free license to harass everyone they don't like under the excuse of law enforcement. (see our drug laws as well).
spanone
(135,846 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I honestly don't know what to say beyond that.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)by my then congresswoman, Gabby Giffords, in Douglas AZ.
There were a bunch of protesters there from the TEA Party... mostly bused in by somebody or other.
Anyway the TEA party assholes would complain loudly about any of the Hispanic people waiting in line to meet with Ms. Giffords with things like "Go back to Mexico" and "wetbacks" and other slurs. One elderly Hispanic man commented to me that his family had been on the same exact ranch for 7 generations... and it wasn't that he had left Mexico... Mexico left him (The US took the property that his ranch was on in the Gadsden Purchase) in 1854.
The stupid really is strong with these TEA Party idiots.
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)them???
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)Just MAINTAINING an acceptable level of stupidity is hard enough. But when they consistently manage to set NEW records...
We are truly in the presence of greatness.
IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)back to America?
Will they do the same for American born non-whites? Should I get packing to go back home to where my parents live? I'm sure they'd like to see me more often. It's still in the USA though to the disappointment of many racists.
ProfessorGAC
(65,078 posts)My bad. I'm giving them ideas.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)like: "Well, we couldn't find the Border Checkpoint when we walked in over the Bearing Land Bridge to Alaska and down the the Southwest about 13,000 years ago. And they think we'll fall for that."
{snark}
Ginger42
(59 posts)So I guess that means I could be deported to . . . *checks Ancestry.com* . . . uh, Norway. Oh, wait. Trump said he wanted immigrants from Norway. I wonder why?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)tRumphole sure spends a lot of time in the tanning booth getting rid of his whiteness.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t
NickPeace
(82 posts)SMDH
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)It sounds too stupid to be true.
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)STUPID.
onetexan
(13,043 posts)Now that is just pathetic