Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on political influence of money

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But why all the focus on skin color?

Initially, I didn't mention skin color till you accused me of being a self-hating white.

If white people in the USA become the minority, which is likely due to declining birth rates among whites, it stands to reason social harm will still exist the same as it does in predominantly non-white countries.

And if someone were to say the reason why social harm takes place in Central America is due to it being predominantly brown, they would be called a racist. In that case it would be said the color of skin is an irrelevant factor.



How so? I mean you always refer to them as brown people. Like as in the white people are afraid of the brown people coming across the border.

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You mention skin color all the time. But like I said, it seems if they're white but like you, they're okay. Otherwise it seems they're either elitist fascists or inbred cracker fascists.

I'm speaking about the fear racists have of Latinos coming to America, thinking it'll further the "browning of America."

We've had this conversation already, and I'm certain I already answered your questions.

You and liberals are the ones I hear calling them brown people all the time. People from the Middle East too. It's all about skin color and nothing else it seems.

It's people on the right who have talked about the "browning of America," and how whites will eventually become extinct.
When Trump says he wishes immigrants would come from places like Norway instead of "s**thole" countries, you don't seriously think he isn't talking about non-white countries, do you?
The right's less than stellar history regarding non-whites can't be denied. If liberals talk about race so often, it's only because the right has expressed so much contempt for non whites.

I don't think the Green New Deal is going to happen because 10 years is a very short amount of time to change everything to green energy. It includes banning air travel and replacing it with high speed rails. How do we fly overseas to Europe or Japan because you can't take a rail to Europe or Japan.

Because obviously, when wishing to have more people come from countries similar to one of the most peaceful, successful, prosperous and least corrupt societies on the planet rather than second-world countries that are legendarily rife with crime, corruption and societal ills, the important factor to consider is the aesthetic differences of the populations involved, right?

Another apologist for racism. Isn't it reasonable to accept people who need it more? Why do people need to emigrate from countries where life is so great? Surely you aren't suggesting that their success is due to their genetics?

It's going to happen regardless of time limits. We can be flexible on that.

The drug war.

How about you try reacting with your head and not your knees for a change?

Here's a thought experiment. If I gave you a glass of water, you might drink it. If I gave you a glass of water laced with cyanide, would you accept being called a coward and a bad person because you won't drink a glass of mostly water?

I'm not sure how aware you are, But Sweden is in a bit of a paralell situation to the US in terms of immigration, partly because of the war in Syria and neighbours, and partly due to the EU border policy (or lack thereof). We accepted a huge proportion of refugees from the middle east, and we did so pretty much indiscriminately. Because of that, we now have problems with honour culture, suddenly we have a problem with mutilatory practices of the female kind, we have violent clashes between different flavours of muslims, we suddenly have Jews fleeing southern Sweden because of a spike in anti-semitism, We have about 1000 confirmed ISIS fighters living here and probably a lot more hiding away, we had a 20-something ISIS fighter posing as a 17-year old and managing to get adopted into a Swedish family where he started preying on the two younger children in that family before he was found out and whole bunch of other horror stories I could probably track down that are directly linked to the indicriminate accepting of a high number of refugees.

Is is perhaps possible that, in being so very kind and welcoming of so many people in need, we also accepted in a large portion of what these people were fleeing from in the first place? Or is that that darn racism again?



If it was that simple, I'd be happy to offer it. But they have no right to demand it, and the ones extending a helping hand have every right to be selective with it.



People have their reasons, but understandably people aren't leaving countries with a good standard of living in huge numbers.



Surely you aren't suggesting that unless what they built is down to their genetics, they have no right to claim it as their own and protect it accordingly?

Immigrants aren't poison.


That's a lie. We have a vetting process.



So what? People have issues, we have a problem with American Nazis. So let's deport white people.


Racism mostly.


Actually, they do have a right to demand asylum.


What we built is due to immigrants.

In this analogy, the ISIS fighters are the poison.




Are you Swedish, AspE? I do not think you are.


Jail them if they're citizens and commit crimes. Deport them if they're not. This is not racism.




Do feel free to explain that reasoning.



One applies for asylum.