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23 Sep 2020, 3:29 pm

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... We have every right, like many other countries in the world, to build a border wall 50 feet high and 50 feet deep along the entire southern border to keep non-Americans people out. Americans want another Operation [censored] like we had in 1954 as shown in the picture below so America will be for Americans.

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23 Sep 2020, 3:33 pm

Fnord wrote:
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... We have every right, like many other countries in the world, to build a border wall 50 feet high and 50 feet deep along the entire southern border to keep non-Americans people out. Americans want another Operation [censored] like we had in 1954 as shown in the picture below so America will be for Americans.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
Blatantly racist.  Quoted for posterity and reported.


How is it racist to deport white people living in America illegally? Those illegals broke the law and were sent back home where they belong.



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23 Sep 2020, 3:37 pm

emotrtkey wrote:
Fnord wrote:
emotrtkey wrote:
... We have every right, like many other countries in the world, to build a border wall 50 feet high and 50 feet deep along the entire southern border to keep non-Americans people out. Americans want another Operation [censored] like we had in 1954 as shown in the picture below so America will be for Americans.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
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How is it racist to deport white people living in America illegally? Those illegals broke the law and were sent back home where they belong.
Look again.  There are some brown-skinned people inside that cage.  Besides, "Mexican/Latino" is a separate category from "White/Caucasian".  Packing brown-skinned (non-white) people into a cage -- some of whom were American citizens -- for deportation is blatant racism.


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23 Sep 2020, 3:41 pm

Fnord wrote:
emotrtkey wrote:
Fnord wrote:
emotrtkey wrote:
... We have every right, like many other countries in the world, to build a border wall 50 feet high and 50 feet deep along the entire southern border to keep non-Americans people out. Americans want another Operation [censored] like we had in 1954 as shown in the picture below so America will be for Americans.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
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How is it racist to deport white people living in America illegally? Those illegals broke the law and were sent back home where they belong.
Look again.  There are some brown-skinned people inside that cage.


I think most Mexicans and Hispanics identify as white. Regardless, how is it racist to hold people accountable for breaking the law? Are you saying the police show only enforce laws when white people commit crimes?



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23 Sep 2020, 3:41 pm

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Voicing criticism of America's worst tendencies and hoping America can live up to her potential isn't the same as 'hating everything about America'. This sort of dishonesty undermines whatever credibility your opinions might otherwise have.

What liberals call America's worst tendencies are things that make America great. When liberals try to change what the moral majority believes and valued for 200 years, they are attacking America.

Slavery was legal until 1865.
Women were disenfranchised until 1920.
Jim Crow laws were in effect until 1965.

Some 200 years, indeed...



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23 Sep 2020, 3:41 pm

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Voicing criticism of America's worst tendencies and hoping America can live up to her potential isn't the same as 'hating everything about America'. This sort of dishonesty undermines whatever credibility your opinions might otherwise have.
What liberals call America's worst tendencies are things that make America great...
Racism?  Sexism?  Homophobia?  Are you saying that these things make America great?


Those certainly would be the worst tendencies liberals condemn, so that does appear to be the implication. :nerdy:


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23 Sep 2020, 3:45 pm

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Voicing criticism of America's worst tendencies and hoping America can live up to her potential isn't the same as 'hating everything about America'. This sort of dishonesty undermines whatever credibility your opinions might otherwise have.


What liberals call America's worst tendencies are things that make America great. When liberals try to change what the moral majority believes and valued for 200 years, they are attacking America. They're trying to turn our country into something she is not. Americans are fed up and won't allow it to happen any longer.


How dare liberals try to make America no longer kowtow to white supremacists. You're aware that Americans who reject your ideological views are still Americans, right?

Trying to insist American liberals and PoC are an out-group separate from those you define as 'true Americans' is showing your true colours. White supremacists don't own America or have a monopoly on being Americans.


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23 Sep 2020, 3:46 pm

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I think most Mexicans and Hispanics identify as white. Regardless, how is it racist to hold people accountable for breaking the law? Are you saying the police show only enforce laws when white people commit crimes?
Deporting illegal immigrants regardless of race makes perfect legal sense; but deporting American citizens because of their race is racism.  American citizens in that cage were deported for being Hispanic/Mexican/LatinX, thus they were deported because of their race -- they were deported because of racism.


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... White supremacists don't own America or have a monopoly on being Americans.
^ THIS ^

Quoted for truth in posterity!


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23 Sep 2020, 3:49 pm

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What liberals call America's worst tendencies are things that make America great...
Racism?  Sexism?  Homophobia?  Are you saying that these things make America great?
Those certainly would be the worst tendencies liberals condemn, so that does appear to be the implication.
So it seems ... no wonder straight white males seem to dominate the MAGA movement.


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23 Sep 2020, 3:55 pm

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Deporting illegal immigrants regardless of race makes perfect legal sense; but deporting American citizens because of their race is racism. People in that cage were deported for being Hispanic/Mexican/LatinX, thus they were deported because of their race -- they were deported because of racism.


Tell me about it. I have an old friend who is Mexican American but she is a American citizen, born and raised here. I was so worried she was going to get accused of being an illegal and be locked up to be deported back to Mexico where her ancestors are other family members are from. She is also white too because she has white relatives so she is mixed.

But she is white passing so my mom reassured me she will be fine but I was more concerned about her husband and kids because they have darker skin than her. They're all American citizens, born and raised here.

Luckily they were never captured.


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23 Sep 2020, 3:59 pm

Fnord wrote:
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Voicing criticism of America's worst tendencies and hoping America can live up to her potential isn't the same as 'hating everything about America'. This sort of dishonesty undermines whatever credibility your opinions might otherwise have.
What liberals call America's worst tendencies are things that make America great...
Racism?  Sexism?  Homophobia?  Are you saying that these things make America great?


I'm saying morality makes America great. I'd go into detail but the rules don't allow promoting morals because it might offend special protected groups of people.



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23 Sep 2020, 4:01 pm

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Deporting illegal immigrants regardless of race makes perfect legal sense; but deporting American citizens because of their race is racism. People in that cage were deported for being Hispanic/Mexican/LatinX, thus they were deported because of their race -- they were deported because of racism.
Tell me about it. I have an old friend who is Mexican American but she is a American citizen, born and raised here. I was so worried she was going to get accused of being an illegal and be locked up to be deported back to Mexico where her ancestors are other family members are from. She is also white too because she has white relatives so she is mixed. But she is white passing so my mom reassured me she will be fine but I was more concerned about her husband and kids because they have darker skin than her. They're all American citizens, born and raised here. Luckily they were never captured.
Under White Nationalist rule, they would likely have already been rounded up and deported.

America is NOT "of the whites, by the whites, and for the whites", it is a nation in which all races may live.


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23 Sep 2020, 4:02 pm

emotrtkey wrote:
Fnord wrote:
emotrtkey wrote:
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Voicing criticism of America's worst tendencies and hoping America can live up to her potential isn't the same as 'hating everything about America'. This sort of dishonesty undermines whatever credibility your opinions might otherwise have.
What liberals call America's worst tendencies are things that make America great...
Racism?  Sexism?  Homophobia?  Are you saying that these things make America great?


I'm saying morality makes America great. I'd go into detail but the rules don't allow promoting morals because it might offend special protected groups of people.


If you're going to slander minorities 'morality' isn't what that's called. Freedom is great and it's even better when it isn't reserved for the majority with everyone else forced to cower and not risk upsetting the majority.


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23 Sep 2020, 4:03 pm

Fnord wrote:
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I think most Mexicans and Hispanics identify as white. Regardless, how is it racist to hold people accountable for breaking the law? Are you saying the police show only enforce laws when white people commit crimes?
Deporting illegal immigrants regardless of race makes perfect legal sense; but deporting American citizens because of their race is racism.  American citizens in that cage were deported for being Hispanic/Mexican/LatinX, thus they were deported because of their race -- they were deported because of racism.


Half of the top 10 FBI's most wanted list are brown skinned Hispanics whose race is listed as white. Liberals got the government to consider Hispanics a white ethnicity when tabulating crime statistics and the FBI most wanted list. Since they're white, it's not racism. If they're citizens, they wouldn't be deported unless it was an accident.



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23 Sep 2020, 4:05 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
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Fnord wrote:
emotrtkey wrote:
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Voicing criticism of America's worst tendencies and hoping America can live up to her potential isn't the same as 'hating everything about America'. This sort of dishonesty undermines whatever credibility your opinions might otherwise have.
What liberals call America's worst tendencies are things that make America great...
Racism?  Sexism?  Homophobia?  Are you saying that these things make America great?


I'm saying morality makes America great. I'd go into detail but the rules don't allow promoting morals because it might offend special protected groups of people.


If you're going to slander minorities 'morality' isn't what that's called. Freedom is great and it's even better when it isn't reserved for the majority with everyone else forced to cower and not risk upsetting the majority.


I'm talking about Christian morals that are also American values. Morality applies to everyone regardless of race since everyone was created by God.