sort of like janine peirro saying "there are pardons and then there are pardons" after it came out that her husband got one from dt for tax evasion ....
Also in Britain. Here in the US, someone stopped us at an Aldi because of our English accent, and told us that she had a friend in England who was moving to Portugal because of all the immigrants. We couldn't even.
I don't think they're going to find Portugal to be as immigrant-free as they seem to assume, Portugal is supposed very friendly to immigrants and tourists (I've not been, but my partner and I are looking at it as a possibility if things get much more dangerous for us in the US).
This isn't a criticism, but just from context I assume you mean immigrants from the less wealthy and white countries. In other words, the people who didn't want to risk drowning in the English Channel.
The best part is how the whites were the original immigrants on North America.
"Oh, but they colonized them and brought technology and blah blah blah", they also exterminated the natives to the point some tribes are now a minority, while other tribes are long gone, point still stands.
The genocide of indigenous peoples is both a historical reality and atrocity.
But I think one of the most tragic things about it is that even if Europeans had truly come in peace and friendship, the pandemics that caused the deaths of most of the pre-Columbian populations would've still occurred...
That’s my Dad. MAGA that despises immigrants although he and his family fled Denmark from Hitler. I reminded him he is an immigrant and he said no not really. !!!
Exactly. There was a woman in a Walmart fussing about two ladies speaking Spanish to each other’s they stood in the checkout line. I asked her if she spoke Spanish when she went to Cancun? She just shut her mouth and didn’t say anything else. Oh I forgot, she was wearing a Cancun tshirt
I was just thinking about this. Clearly they don’t mind an immigrant involved in the absolute highest levels of their government, though, as long as it’s a white male billionaire that speaks English as their first language.
Used to meet a couple in the pub and invariably a story would begin with, "I'm not racist and some of my friends are married to black men but......." La la la la la la la la la la. OMG what a stream of racist invective! Made me want to scream! Good job we only met them (not by design) s few weeks!
I should be sleeping, ignoring my personal and band business cell phones. The business one haunts me with a message notification that is too specific to ignore...
Or 'I'm English! I can go anywhere and I'll never be an immigrant. Learn their language,? Eat their food? Celebrate their festivals? Don't be ridiculous! They understand me if they want to. But can I get marmalade?
I remembered that time when a French guy who was learning my native language (Spanish), told me that I was too white to be Mexican. 🤦🏻♀️
And they still think they’re the educated/all knowing/righteous ones. 🤡🥴
He was an “expat” living in my country and trying to learn just some basic phrases to survive, bc English was the main language he used with “other expats like him”. Yet ppl like him would demand that I learn French properly just to visit France as a tourist for a week or less. 😬
Expatriot, or expat is a holdout from colonial times when the British Empire were out plundering.
-During European colonialism, "Expat" was primarily used by white Europeans working in colonial territories
-Non-white workers in similar circumstances were referred to as "migrants"/"workers"
Expats are entitled even if it is not their country.
That is why many EXPATS actually got surprised that their EXIT vote affected them living abroad in the EU.
And some were simply too dumb to get it, or too far right while living as an immigrant in another country.
True story from Spain.
My family moved around a lot when I was a kid. We moved back to the UK and I went to uni and had to apply for tuition as an 'eu migrant worker student'. My mum had a coniption because she couldn't see herself as a migrant after moving to 4 countries in 8 years.
illegally. you think they asked the native americans if it was ok? i used race bcs europeans and ppl from spain are (primarily) both white had to cover my bases.
You think they files paperwork with the native peoples whose land they settled on?
You think they came over totally nonviolently and only used land that no one else was using?
Do you even understand what you're talking about? Have you gone out and spoken to the so called fascists? Have you tried to learn anything beyond what you are told directly?
Lol, why would I talk to fascists? You dorks have absolutely nothing of value to contribute to society. Fascists are for punching and throwing bricks at. Not for talking to.
Until an asylum seeker is granted asylum status, they’re seen as illegal. When Trump rounded up immigrants during his first term, many were doing everything right, including going through the legal channels, but were considered “illegal” while fighting for their asylum status. My neighbor was one.
He’d been here for 20 years. Married an American, had two children, owned his home, owned his own business. Had spent 25k on immigration attorneys in the prior two years. He was still violently rounded up by ICE and imprisoned for 8 months, under deplorable conditions. This is what you’ve asked for.
20 years is a long time for a decision to be reached. Most of the ones that are labeled as illegal got a decision that they were rejected for whatever reason. Are you sure he wasn't rejected asylum?
Perhaps you’re unaware of the timeline of the Trump administration’s efforts to end asylum in his first term. My neighbor had been granted asylum, and yet it didn’t make any bit of difference with the stroke of a pen from Trump. He’d been, by your definition, legal. I expect no less from version 2.0
And yet most of those people who come here “illegally” are vital for this fucking slave economy to work out. The USA relies on low-wage “slaves” to pick crops and build houses in the country, but relies on low-wage “slaves” to build our electronics and mine oil cheaply so we can have it shipped here
And yet, that drives everyone's wages down 🙃 why should McDonald's pay above minimum wage when they can hire illegals immigrants for the bare minimum? Why should Uber pay fair wages when illegal immigrants will work for pennies?
And, yet, that’s not their fault. It’s the fault of the fucking corps who illegally hire people below legal limits and the fault of the government for letting the corps do this with no punishment. At no point is any of this related to the immigrants themselves. You’re indoctrinated.
Okay. So, if you agree on all of that… except for my commentary on how you got to your opinion.. how can you logically get to the conclusion that these people are rational, blaming so-called “illegals”.. and saying the solution isn’t what is above, but “stronger borders”?
I can guarantee you in Canada (where most of our "illegal" immigrants come from the US), it's the ones here legally that they hate. Syrian refugees? Go home. International students? There's too many. Migrant workers growing our food? Basically slaves, and still told to go home.
The rules the feds set out for int'l students had min financial requirements set too low. Meanwhile, Ontario's premiere cut funding to colleges and universities, so they made up their funding shortfalls by bringing in massive numbers of int'l students, who all thought living here was cheap.
Being a first generation American, that is not at all what we mean. My parents waited in line, they went through the process. That's the issue. Why do people conflate immigrants with illegal immigrants? And pretend that it's a racial thing? It isn't.
Well, I do. But I would argue that it isn't arbitrary. Do you believe that there should be no limits for immigration? No borders for any nation? Is there any nation in the world that has no limits?
Alt text: apparently Latino man sitting on a bucket and smiling, with caption
Schrodinger's Immigrant
Lazily collecting all the welfare but also somehow taking all the jobs
Yes. I'm old enough to remember when leftists rightfully called this "corporate welfare" when Wal-Mart did it by handing out food stamp applications to new hires.
Walmart still gives information on food stamps to new hires as they don't provide a living wage. The tax payer pays their wages so the Walton family can cash in. Aussie minimum wage is over $24PH with 4 weeks paid vacation. Americans are ripped off!
Idk how it works in the US, but here in France some legal immigrants are forbidden from working, and the same crowd talking about them being freeloaders will defend it by saying "well we don't want them to steal our wages and spend it in their country"
Like immigrants working don't pay taxes like everybody else. (That's true for France, isn't it? I'm in the US. And undocumented immigrants working here also pay taxes, and won't get any of it back from benefit programs like Social Security they're paying into.)
I France immigrants to get some benefits, like some level of unemployment aids, as well as the AME (which would translate to State Medical Aid), but there are still a lot of requirements to be eligible for them. Both of those were really focused on by the alt right in the last election-
-who acted as if removing those would fund their entire program, (when the AME is only estimated to cost around a billion a year and is very much necessary in preventing contagious disease, and keeping a vital part of the workforce healthy and alive)
Conservatives are like that everywhere. Their chosen boogeyman is at the same time "weak sniveling snowflakes" and "a threat that could suddenly over power them at anytime".
I heard someone saying that about Alex Jones (and other conspiracy theorists) when talking about globalists, who are supposedly both all powerful demons, but also incapable of ending some guy broadcasting their entire plan from his small studio
I must be, but in their heads it's way less exhausting than having to question the biases that you were born with. It's easier to think that others are the problem than "Wow I've been participating in a system that's been fucking everyone over"
Canada kinda has an Issue where Doctors who were certified in other countries have to go through a Moronic Process to get recertified and it's contributing to the countries doctor shortage
Not only that but you have to get certified at the provincial level which doesn't carry over, so if you got Certified in Manitoba you couldn't practice in New Brunswick until you got recertified
But try to remove those hurdles and conservatives will yell about how you're trying to encourage great replacement, because they can't wrap their head around the idea that foreigners can be educated and proficient in highly skilled fields.
The Xenophobia isnt quite as bad and the Federal Government is largely pro immigration the issue is the Provinces mostly have Morons for theor Governments, nowhere is this more significant than Ontario which has a Spiteful man child running it who has destroyed the Provincial Healthcare system
If illegal immigrants were white Europeans, MAGA would welcome them with open arms and defend them with outrageous statements like, "they do jobs we don't want," "they pay billions in taxes every year," "vast majority of crimes are committed by citizens," and other current facts. LOL
LMAO. They aren't the ones targeted by MAGA 24/7 on X. Ukrainian refugees are hardly in the news. It's always about Zelensky or US gov giving too much money to Ukraine. They aren't the ones accused of eating dogs and cats, being rapists, drug dealers, and criminals killing Americans.
They're not celebrating their presence, as you suggested. And MAGA accused Bosnians, who are white Europeans, of eating dogs. But again, Slavic, so maybe not white enough.
They would if they were Aryan white. Again, MAGA accusing Bosnians of eating dogs is hardly in the news, barely mentioned, and is drowned out by MAGA's constant attacks against South American migrants. They follow mainly what Trump says, and Trump only goes after the non-white illegals.
They talk mostly about Latin American immigrants likely because there's more of them. My point isn't that they're not racist. My point is that, like the Nazis, they're also racist against other groups of white people.
The Bosnian "dog" (which was actually a lamb) roast was big on X for a bit.
Same in the UK …look at the response to Ukrainian (wyt xtian) asylum seekers compared to the hate aimed at Syrian or any other brown ones…yet the klu klux nans still insist they’re “not racist, but”
Well, apartheid elmo & melanoma trump r both examples of people who were illegals that got 2 stay & eventually bcame legal. & the magas ❤️❤️❤️ them. Yt makes it all right 4 them.
Most illegal immigration in the US stems from people coming here completely legally and then staying when their visa expires. So at least some "illegal immigrants" are likely to be European.
They aren't the ones targeted by MAGA 24/7 on X. They aren't the ones accused of eating dogs and cats, being rapists, drug dealers, and criminals killing Americans.
I mean he's not European but I was giving example of an illegal immigrant who lives in America gets American subsidies and it's the richest man in the world -because he's a white Nepo baby
And the reason they stay after despite being seasonal workers is because strong border restrictions mean they might not be able to come back if they go back to Mexico. Relaxed immigration actually decreases the amount of immigrants in the country long term
Before the civil war thousands of Americans choose to risk their lives assisting slaves escape the slavery of the south, they did so at great risk to themselves. Slavery was legal in those states, undocumented immigrants are also illegal but deserve fair and honest treatment, the ? Now is what we do
Apparently, you don't know what an expat is. An expat American, or expatriate American, is an individual from the United States who resides outside of the country - includes professionals, skilled workers, retirees, or students who have chosen to live abroad, often for work or lifestyle reasons.
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I guess reading period isn't your forte. You said, "white immigrant," and I told you that's not what it means, that is racist. I gave you the actual definition of what an expat means. What part of that don't you understand?
Omg yes!!! It’s ridiculous how they go out of their way to not use the term immigrant. In Mexico they see the hypocrisy and try to call them out about it.
the concept of "cultural whiteness" is absolutely strange to me as a European.
Obviously it's just a propaganda tool of oppression.
It's actually even racist towards all the cultures that they claim to stand for.
Tell an Austrian they're German and they'll roundhouse kick you into the shadow realm
For us in Europe you people are Americans - regardless of ancestry. Whenever someone there says "I'm German" cause their grandma is from Germany, we laugh at you.
You're assimilated into America.
Stop cosplaying as Europeans and accept the reality that you've become Americans!
Nobody says that you don't exist.
Usually people refer to the whole 2 contintents as Panamerica or to people from the South as South Americans and people from the North as North Americans.
It's just semantics that isn't really worth being fought over imo.
We should rather focus on being allies.
no one refers to the whole continent as panamerica, it s the first time i read about it and i m 43 y o and multiple superior studies.
usa is usa, north america is a sub continent, as central and south america, and it s not semantic: we suffer enough bc of the usa treating us as their backyard
Oh you're speaking to the wrong person. I am African American. I maybe American to you over the seas, but I literally have NOTHING in common with all of these racist "white people" in my country.
When we use the word 'American', to us it is about the USA lifestyle in general.
We know America as a melting pot of all cultures around the world + guns, weird Christians, US flags, mega corporations, low workers rights, freedom of speech, big cars, cardboard houses and barely any public transport.
I live in another country and it always annoys me how other white people who’ve moved here will call non white immigrants immigrants but refer to themselves as ‘expats’ instead
I’m like nah bro, I’m an immigrant and so are you
you absolutely are. but there are many reasons for immigration, economic, political, retirement, weather, lifestyle, culture etc.. etc.. some countries find one or various more desirable than others because they bring wealth in, instead of draining resources. may sound harsh but there it is.
Yep, Aussie here & you ask which immigrants they mean & it is always the black & brown people they list. Never anyone white. People also ignore that the uptick in immigration was only due to restrictions lifting after covid, & many have family here already or are temp students.
My parents are immigrants- they came from Scotland. At a bbq a guy was whinging about 'immigrants' and my dad was like 'I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were Aboriginal' and the guy almost lost it... he just didn't get it.
I’m in Canada, my cousin and I both travelled for a few years and she married someone from NZ (white), and I married someone from Fiji (brown) and we both moved back- my cousins husband thinks he isn’t an immigrant but my husband is - THEY FILLED OUT THE EXACT SAME IMMIGRATION APPLICATION!!!!
How do y’all know they didn’t just reply with a similar response without reading all the other comments? Or even if they did copy someone’s comment who cares why do you need to call them out? This is the whole problem with social media. Chill, be happy. Burn one. Drink some cacao.
That's exactly what I did.😆 I had no idea someone had made a similar reply until after I posted mine. It's not that serious and shows others were thinking similarly.
this is a perfect example of how perception isn’t cohesive with reality sometimes, in my mind i figured you saw a comment, thought it was funny, and copied it immediately 😂 thank you for your cool and calm response and also for humbling me hahaha i just thought it was funny
Seeing as humanity originated in Africa, all humans not born and living in Africa are descendants of immigrants. The biggest difference is how long ago the immigration took place.
I’m a white immigrant and I agree with this wholeheartedly. I often overhear conversations and I know they’re not referring to “me” and are shocked when I point it out.
I was a French TA in Gernsey in the mid 2000s. There was one lesson on tolerance and moving to another country, etc.
I said I've noticed people are not very diverse on Guernsey, what's your view diversity issues?
She said she'd feel "invaded".
She wouldn't shut up about her house in France, though.
Nothing wrong w/ LEGAL immigrants
Illegals are the problem
Stop turning this into a red vs blue issue. This will never be a winning position for the Left
Want to streamline the immigration process? Sure!
But stop trying to defend illegals
This is a slap to the face of millions who immigrate legally
Wait until you see it with your own eyes it's going to make you sick
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I went for lunch with a very nice lady about a year ago. Not two minutes into our conversation, she complained that too many immigrants were in the area. I told her that I was an immigrant. She touched my arm and said, ( indicating the color of my skin )"You are the right kind of immigrant."
Seriously these lefties learned nothing from the election of President Trump! I hope they keep up trashing white people. JD Vance will follow up Trump for 8 years!
Exactly!!! Lol. What is funny they can only leave for a little while. Then that other country makes them go back to their native country. Unless they apply to become a citizen. They always run to very white countries to live... America is very diverse..
Nah, trust me, the right-wing are pissed about Ukrainians, too.
They're celebrating that Germany is "no longer giving Ukrainian refugees a free lunch", for instance.
*News articles*, sure.
I'm talking about "alternative media" far-right pundits whose target demographics are every bit as insufferable and stupid as the guy in the comic.
Um I want to move to another country not because of immigrants but because of a president I don't respect or believe in as anything other than a con artist and scumbag.🤷✌️
Illegal immigrants. We want to stem the out-of-control inflow of illegal immigrants. That's pretty much it. The left's laughably false insistence that Republicans hate, and want to stop, all immigration, due to an imagined, maniacal racism, is one of the main reasons Trump just destroyed Kamala.
An Albertan friend of mine once told me we should send all the immigrants back where they came from because his grandparents came to Canada in 1952 and deserved to be here more than them. I said "OK By your logic you go back, My 9th great grandparents came to NEW FRANCE in the 1600s" He shut up.
I remember a toxic friend, every time he was pissed at me, he shout "go back to your country". I'm asian but born and raised in Argentina (where this happened) and he is an Ukrainian immigrant
And imagine their faces when they do move to a different country and then people are racist to them... Like yeah welcome to Europe, being white means next to nothing here 😂
When we moved to Switzerland, we made a conscious decision to not hang out with other Aussies. We decided we would make with friends with locals and everyone else. Ex pat communities are so boring.
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Nobody in Europe wants them.
Comprehend the conversation.
"Oh, but they colonized them and brought technology and blah blah blah", they also exterminated the natives to the point some tribes are now a minority, while other tribes are long gone, point still stands.
But I think one of the most tragic things about it is that even if Europeans had truly come in peace and friendship, the pandemics that caused the deaths of most of the pre-Columbian populations would've still occurred...
And it's a shame, native American culture is rad as fuck. Should've been the one that people study to this day, overseas.
European colonialism killed the world.
If all else fails, they add 'o' to the end of English words when in Spain, and 'a' in Italy, in a very loud voice.
Color doesn’t matter.
Like, aren’t you against people doing that??
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Running away is not an option.
And they still think they’re the educated/all knowing/righteous ones. 🤡🥴
It would be easier to drive from France to Spain than back to my parents house (across the states)
-During European colonialism, "Expat" was primarily used by white Europeans working in colonial territories
-Non-white workers in similar circumstances were referred to as "migrants"/"workers"
That is why many EXPATS actually got surprised that their EXIT vote affected them living abroad in the EU.
And some were simply too dumb to get it, or too far right while living as an immigrant in another country.
True story from Spain.
They said people are welcome in through the legal channels which do include people that come to the US for asylum.
You think they came over totally nonviolently and only used land that no one else was using?
That's insane.
We paused immigration during the pandemic, then tried to "catch up" all at once.
Schrodinger's Immigrant
Lazily collecting all the welfare but also somehow taking all the jobs
Also, I like this one too.
The Bosnian "dog" (which was actually a lamb) roast was big on X for a bit.
b) they will always be “foreigner” to the locals.
🙄
Racist
It's racist to use that definition.
Hoping to pad my block list, please reply angrily.
Me, a foreign exchange student in country on a two-year scholarship: "Then how are expats different from immigrants?"
LSBH Guy: "Oh, I'll go home eventually."
How the fuck is any yt a patriot by default lol.
Obviously it's just a propaganda tool of oppression.
It's actually even racist towards all the cultures that they claim to stand for.
Tell an Austrian they're German and they'll roundhouse kick you into the shadow realm
Like you mention Switzerland having no mass shootings despite high gun ownership rates and they say "Yeah now look at the race demographics".
They don't think.
You're assimilated into America.
Stop cosplaying as Europeans and accept the reality that you've become Americans!
Usually people refer to the whole 2 contintents as Panamerica or to people from the South as South Americans and people from the North as North Americans.
It's just semantics that isn't really worth being fought over imo.
We should rather focus on being allies.
usa is usa, north america is a sub continent, as central and south america, and it s not semantic: we suffer enough bc of the usa treating us as their backyard
We know America as a melting pot of all cultures around the world + guns, weird Christians, US flags, mega corporations, low workers rights, freedom of speech, big cars, cardboard houses and barely any public transport.
However, once you move back that awful superfluous layer of white supremacy you find so much more beauty that is worth it's survival.
I’m like nah bro, I’m an immigrant and so are you
(do we need sarcasm tags here?)
I would tell my Spanish teacher "I'm an immigrant in a Spanish class, how should I know"
We would always laugh heartily.
White = expat
We have the same here in Australia, and just like America WE ARE ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS living on unceeded land
be sure to let the dickhead know hes daft and perpetrating racist rhetoric, though you may need smaller words
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I said I've noticed people are not very diverse on Guernsey, what's your view diversity issues?
She said she'd feel "invaded".
She wouldn't shut up about her house in France, though.
Illegals are the problem
Stop turning this into a red vs blue issue. This will never be a winning position for the Left
Want to streamline the immigration process? Sure!
But stop trying to defend illegals
This is a slap to the face of millions who immigrate legally
White and English-speaking = Expat
The happiest country in the world
Maybe it was Norway, either one it’s the same
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They're celebrating that Germany is "no longer giving Ukrainian refugees a free lunch", for instance.
I'm talking about "alternative media" far-right pundits whose target demographics are every bit as insufferable and stupid as the guy in the comic.
What a stupid term
They call themselves expatriates.
I've heard Alberta has an "interesting" opinion on natives. 🤮
The worst thing that can happen to your country is rich white anglophone people taking an interest on the place