Not everyone thinks this, but I know an extreme right-winger who thinks this. He is also a conspiracy theorist who thinks non-white people are out to get white people so, yeah, odd.
Not every immigrant is illegal or bad. I know a girl who didn’t speak English for 3 years when her family legally immigrated, so of course she’s been told this.
It’s inherent feature of human reasoning across the board. Everyone does broad generalizations about other people based on more or less unrelated information about them. Just yesterday someone here was getting upvoted for implying people driving lifted trucks are racists. It’s the same logic at work there. It’s othering. Us vs. them and so on. It may have been useful when we still lived in tribes but doesn’t quite work with how society is today.
I feel like America is like this especially. I’ve seen them assume too many things about me because of single beliefs I held
US America for sure, yes.
For some reason it seems like human nature to treat everybody in a recognizable group like they’re the same person, and that person is either good or bad depending on your background and attitudes - immigrants, trans people, cops, boomers, tech nerds, hot women, republicans, democrats, musicians… there are probably stereotypes you have broad opinions about which you will spend all day defending/rationalizing because a) “it’s true” and/or b) “I’m not bigoted!” We’re all bigots, just do it in different ways. And no, that’s not a defense for any particular bigotry or saying they’re all equal.
That’s the great thing about racism, it doesn’t have to make sense!
Racism?
No, thanks!
someone called my Ukrainian coworker a wetback.
i just… want you to think about that and what it says about how dumb bigots are
I feel both superior and stupid at the same time in this moment. I don’t know what a “wetback” is. Based on context I’m going to guess it’s some kind of racist remark that doesn’t apply to Ukrainains. But for the life of me, I can’t think of what it would even be saying.
So I feel stupid for not knowing…but also like I’m probably the better person for NOT knowing.
Unfortunately I’m familiar with the term. It refers to Latin people immigrating into the U.S. without documentation by swimming across the Rio Grande river which forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
it’s a racial slur against latin americans. it’s referencing backstroking across the rio grande
A thousand guesses, and I would have eventually landed on it being against Latinos (necause there’s only so many races). But I never would have correctly guessed the Rio Grande part.
That’s some very very specific racism right there.
Biologically, there are no multiple human races. There is a single human species. Socially, there are an infinite number of races.
The concept of race is foundational to racism, the belief that humans can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.
The use of races to distinguish people socially is playing right into the racists’ playbook by forcing you to play on their turf, where reason is out of the window.
race is a social construct. it’s a tool of the oppressor.
Oh my God… 🤦
LOL reminds me about the bigot during the first Trump administration harassing Puerto Ricans because he claimed they are aren’t American citizens. Get ready for even more of this nonsense in the next 4 years, ugh.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10/us/illinois-puerto-rico-park-officer/index.html
So… looking at the context and the intent, is it pure racism even if they didn’t come up from the south? It’s bigoted, I guess?
A lot of people are influenced by alt-right news (Fox News, Newsmax, OAN) who keep repeating the false claim that undocumented immigrants are mostly gangsters and violent criminals. In truth, undocumented immigrants are way less likely to commit a violent crime than an average American citizen.
Trump said, regarding the first deportation flight:
Three hundred people sitting on a plane. Every single one of them is either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin, the head of the mob, or a gang member
Yet none of those deportees had any criminal conviction in either country (according to Newsweek, a slightly-right news source).
remember: oligarchs are the real criminal enemy, not your fellow 99.9%
Because they’re stupid, bigoted cunts. I IT in construction (somehow still, whew thats another story) and I talk to these troglodytes on a daily basis. The minute one of these homunculus shambles in and has a minute to flap their lip skins racist ass, stupid ass shit flows out. Meanwhile, every gentleman that is of Mexican descent can at least hold their cool, or outright flipoff the trump cutout my boss has up in our office. Not saying they aren’t imperfect humans either, but for some fucken reason white dudes can’t help but drop the mask to other white dudes. All I gotta do is have one Trump trinket near me to work magic on anyone conversing with me. The trick is, a lot of the immigrant dudes didnt start flipping Trump off until he actually began this deportation shit. Even when he was saying he’d do it they were saying he’d fix stuff. Its a people thing man idk. Education in the western hemisphere is just utterly failing most. If you aren’t a knowledge seeker, if you dont have the tools to combat propaganda and falsehoods, and sometimes even if you do, this place will eat you.
Because they’re stupid, bigoted cunts.
I feel like you could have said just this. Not saying the rest of your post is invalid in anyway. I’m just saying that first sentence sums it up completely.
You’re right, but the rest of his post is pure poetry. I wish I could be eloquent that way.
American fascism doesn’t care what’s true or what’s right. It cares only to kill and enslave people who are “undesirable”
You know it’s true because it’s fun to say
Racism.
That’s i t.
That’s literally it.
- Not all US cirizens feel this way. Convict47 won by 1.5%, with 19 million less voters Thant the previous time. Voter suppression won this election.
- And for the ones that feel this way, you’ve got it absolutely right, plain old ignorant racism.
“Shouldn’t that logic apply to…”
One must remember that people aren’t logical. They’re hypocritical and willfully ignorant.
Send musk back please.
Because people here are racists, yet not clever.
Remember, everyone is a hypocrite. The USA is a melting pot of so many different peoples with about 250 years of history as a nation. My working theory is that has led to a nation-wide identity crisis: who and what am I. They are intensely occupied with their origins because the only people who have been on the continent for millennia (Native Americans) were brutally reduced and are the only ones who know their roots with higher certainty.
It’s why many USAians will gladly call themselves “Italian”, “Indonesian”, or “African” without ever having set a foot in that country/continent, knowing next to nothing about it, being unable to speak or even identity a language from there, nor locate it on the map.Factor in their education system, “winner takes all” vote counting system which leads to tribalism, and media influence, human inability to think long term, and you end up with a large swathe of people who cannot reason logically about these things.
They are both from those countries and completely USA people. Bit baffling really.
The US is an immigrant nation built on the genocide of natives. Anti-immigration sentiment is based on an ignorance of history and the modern workforce of the country.
Crackdowns on undocumented workers will destroy the local agricultural industry. The US and its food supply are completely dependent on migrant labor.
And yes, it’s deeply hypocritical to genocide a population, steal their land, then act like people who came from elsewhere a few generations later to work are an existential problem.
“Well, WE did it, so obviously they’ll try it too!”
Because we have an idiot problem over here right now. The person you know is an idiot.
You assume logic is behind their reasoning, that’s where you went wrong
