I think a big problem is that we seek to understand racism and bigotry rather than confront it.
Me I'm a bit over "seeking to understand" because it's just normalised it all
Me I'm a bit over "seeking to understand" because it's just normalised it all
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Fear, low levels of education, contribute.
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A decent education offering, from governments, would reduce it.
A lot of voters may not themselves be racist, but will vote for a racist party if it's the only one that will address those concerns. It's those people we need to understand.
What you need is tarring and feathering. Racist bastard.
There are two concerns. One is a logical fallacy that conceives of immigrants as labor supply that adds no demand, and racism.
And I hate to break it to you, Sam, but those voters voting for racists and racist policies....are racist.
NO THEY JUST HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT MIGRANTS
which ones?
"Oh you know the ones"
what are your definitely not racist concerns about migrants.
What we need to understand is why we're debating a racist, self-immolating nationalism rather than fixing the country.
Objectively, immigration is good for economies. Legal immigrants pay far more into the system than they take. 1/
Shut up, baldy
that makes them racists, samuel
So the voters are clearly racist.
Here's a Klan Campaign from 1923 about immigration: The Menace of Modern Immigration!
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2976522
People consider it racist, because it is racist, dork.
The *only* reason migration is a concern for anyone is racism and/or bigotry. That's it. That's all it has ever been.
They got significantly more next election.
Within a few years they had 92%
*Note: I DO NOT BELIEVE that anyone's existence should depend on their "usefulness" to one group or another. I only mean to point out that there is no legitimate non-racist reason.
If it walks like a Nazi, and if it talks like a Nazi, it’s a motherfucking Nazi.
“Far right” political alliances are motherfucking Nazis. Full stop.
America’s former Republican Party is now the MAGA Nazi Party.
Also your framing of legitimate concerns is false. It’s all racism.
Its been rammed down our throats for decades now that this is the most important thing in the world.
And I think that becomes quite obvious when you consider that the same people voice no concerns about white immigrants.
See? See how monumentally stupid your thesis sounds?
We don't need to understand ppl who vote for racists. If that's not a red line for them, they are racist trash, too.
Trump pointing at legal immigrants: THESE FUCKIN ILLEGALS ARE EATING YOUR DOGS!
They talk about "coming here the right way" but demonize asylum seeking, which is a legal form of immigration
Are you just ignoring the "Great Replacement" rhetoric, too?
Going “well that guy might be monster but he’s going to get rid of the brown people” is how you get Trump.
I mean, people are naturally concerned about immigration. Just organically. Just a thing that people in, say, Montana, care a lot about for Reasons. No racism here.
I agree that continuing to shout people down as bigots is not the solution, pretending this has nothing to do with racism is also a non-starter.
Got damn, get a clue.
I dare you to say "Come here legally" and then blow off discussing 9/11 immigration laws.
"If you think there is a migrant problem, then you either ARE a bigot, or you're so gullible that you've been manipulated by propaganda to believe in a problem that only exists because we made it impossible to come here legally."
i'm concerned that migration instincts aren't going to keep up with climate change and it may be too late for many more
So, no.
People vote for extremists when they feel they aren’t being treated fairly.
People are not born with those feelings, they are learned behaviors.
Either cough up the tax money to pay for their deprogramming and years of therapy, or get out of the way.
Or help us deal with them.
Talk time is way over. Praxis time.
It’s tiring and best ignored.