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In reply to the discussion: JD Vance calls mass migration 'theft', gets told Usha 'go back to India' [View all]Aussie105
(7,536 posts)21. It all makes sense if you translate things.
'Immigrants are stealing the American dream' = if you are not white, you a leeching of us white people.
That threatened 'American dream' = entitlement of white Americans. All for us, none for you, depending on your skin color.
Simplistic racism at its worst.
But unless you are 100% genetically descended from indigenous tribes, you or some of your ancestors were immigrants too.
Then again, they were immigrants too, if you go back far enough.
Australia does this too.
The government even had an immigration policy decades ago, the 'White Australian policy'.
Not welcomed as an immigrant if you didn't have skills or had the 'wrong' skin color.
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JD Vance calls mass migration 'theft', gets told Usha 'go back to India' [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Dec 12
OP
I can't believe the nerve of him to keep saying these nasty things about immigrants.
Diamond_Dog
Dec 12
#2
I would not doubt that. For someone who graduated from Yale, he is really stupid.
Escurumbele
Dec 12
#28
If immigrants are "stealing the American Dream" then every baby born is doing the same
AZJonnie
Dec 12
#5
Problems can be solved without being violent to innocent people and then attempting to justify it.
twodogsbarking
Dec 12
#11
Gee, my great-grandparents came here in the "mass migration" in the early 20th C....
viva la
Dec 12
#14
The American Dream is a D-R-E-A-M, vd dunce! Most of us live in real reality!
Clouds Passing
Dec 12
#19
Probably sleeping in separate bedrooms like the fat orange imbecile and Melanoma
wolfie001
Dec 12
#38