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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

This nation is built and maintained by incoherency.

Always one group wanting to assimilate with the larger group while shaming others like them. My dad's side (and I've heard this outside family) shame hispanic immigrants, while being hispanic themselves. They're "American" and therefore more pure or something. They want to set the good example not to be sleepy and lazy like immigrant version of hispanic. You see this "house slave" dynamic everywhere. Gays do this when they blend in with straights masking inner Boy George to set the good example.

Immigration is a good way to pull at hearts.

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Yasha Levine's avatar

yeah the way immigrants go against other immigrants has always bothered me — there is always a hierarchy of purity that people to fit into, aping the ruling classes…

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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

I understand needing to survive and that increasing odds but the lack of future reflection or awareness is alarming. I’ve done this behavior in my past life but I eventually identified and ceased it.

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hierochloe's avatar

Indeed, I repeatedly hear from someone how they got in the "right way" and fuck all these illegals, despite even being related to some (and despite that claim possibly being a lie to fit in better to their right wing community). Sad.

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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

Their shamed exploitation becomes the survival they once feared.

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hierochloe's avatar

thanks for sharing that, it's on the money

Especially during xmas: I mean, who doesn't love when Buddy's dad tells his boss to piss off. My wife had me watch Family Man for the first time this year, that one is probably apropos too.

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