No Stupid Questions

As soon as they settled down and thought, now they have got something to loose.

When stupid and hateful took over all three branches of government and runs unopposed...

The Unites States was founded by religious extremists who were pressured to leave their community because of their extremist Christian beleifs.

Until we force wealth equality people in the US will not be equal.

Blaming immigrants is classic political trope.
Right along with blaming the poor.

Even when the nation was welcoming immigrants, handing them a weapon, and shoving them to the front line. They were being denigrated and demonized by other Americans.

When immigrants from the "wrong" country started applying.

What is the wrong country? What ever the media says it currently is.

See the 1947 US Army video: “Don’t be a Sucker”:

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

It’s always been a hypocritical ideal. Even the US Military acknowledged our xenophobic tendencies, and the constant struggle against them. And slowly doing better. That’s the point.

…But I think the radical shift of the “attention economy” is what makes it feel like the ideal is finally collapsing. The population is sucked into doomscrolling Fox News (for example) at such scale that makes this US Army video feel quaint.

If they published the same thing today, no one would even notice. There’s too much noise. And that is unprecedented.

Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. It was commonly called "nativism". Consider watching Scorcese's "Gangs of New York" for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.

As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.

I frankly don't find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government's executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they're actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.

Owner class wants cheap slaves... But they don't want to be blamed for it.

So they got Indigenous population to blame the new slaves while owners exploit both. That wage growth since 1970s speaks for itself.

Indigenous Americans are just useful idiots fighting culture wars. They should know better but propaganda be good!

Lead and propaganda.

This was done to keep our Catholic roots in check. I'm no longer a Catholic-aligned guy as a result. My producer was Catholic-aligned and Jesuit-associated for his entire life until he started making changes he felt was right with his higher power.

The Statue of Liberty wasn't something commissioned by the USA. It was just how one French guy saw us. The New Colossus is not law, it's a poem.

We've never really been proud of immigration. The only President with a reasonable take on immigrants was Teddy Roosevelt - and his belief was that the only path forward is full assimilation.

Distraction is the point.

They became anti-immigrant once they had kids and saw other people arriving to the boat. My sister in law's family are refugees from El Salvador. Now they are all raging Trumpers, despite half of them not being naturalized yet.

Once we took everything from the natives fully to the west coast we stopped being keen on it.

Because immigrants don’t participate in politics. They are too busy to do actual work that creates value for the country instead of voting or being social butterflies and running campaigns.

Easier communication. Thousands of people each living far apart had no way to amplify each other. Immigrants were mostly centered around cities, thus the rural divide.

Somewhere after the Great War. No idea why though.

I have a take no one else has talked about. I think much of the recent hate is down to there being too many damned people, and suddenly it seems a lot of them are brown.

Young me honestly wasn't quite sure what Hispanic meant because there weren't any around. LOL, imagine my culture shock when I moved to Chicago! Then I came down to Florida, and once again, no Hispanics. They were so rare it was kinda freaky. Then Hurricane Ivan flattened us, loads of immigrants showed up to build and never left.

Now people are looking around and seeing America on the first downward trajectory since the Great Depression. They're casting about to lay blame. Know what's different? Well lookee here, millions of new brown people that weren't here before!

I don't think liberals understand just how many immigrants came across the southern border in the last 20 years. When I brought up that there was indeed a crisis at the border during the Biden admin, I got beat up here and on reddit. Y'all can stick your fingers in your collective ear, but shitloads of people were piling up to get it. It was a humanitarian crisis.

Not saying the hate is logical, but I can at least understand where it's coming from. It's a little more nuanced that screaming RACIST at everyone.

When said immigration switched from primarily being Europeans emigrating from a post WW2 Europe, and instead became primarily brown folk coming from all the countries that the U.S. itself bombed to shit.

It's not immigration that they hate. It's brown immigration.

Never forget that.

The us has always been anti illegal immigration and accepting of legal immigration. Its incredibly harmful that the 2 concepts are being combined and treated the same now.