Overheard at a grocery store...

[Swede Atlanta]

18. That reminds me of a recent FB exchange I had with a second cousin......

She is quite a hardened biker (I have nothing against bikers) but definitely someone who probably swallows the teabag talking points lock stock and barrel.

She posted some vitriolic teabag nonsense about illegal immigrants and how they need to be rounded up and deported and we needed to put armed guards at the border with a shoot to kill order for anything that moved.

I responded that her post was harsh and that the issue of immigration is complex with many aspects and that we need comprehensive reform that includes penalties and fines for those that have come here illegally but that they should have a path to citizenship. I was especially concerned about efforts to deny children born in this country of illegal parents of American citizenship.

She replied that the issue was very simple that anyone who was here illegally should be treated harshly and their children and grandchildren should be denied citizenship. I responded that she must then wish that upon herself.

She replied "cousin, our ancestors came here legally so I don't know what you are talking about". I replied, actually none of our ancestors came here legally because the native peoples who were here when the first Europeans arrived never game them legal status. So anyone here who is not a descendant of the native peoples who were here in the 16th and 17th centuries are here illegally.

She didn't defriend me on FB but she has basically ignored me ever since. The truth hurts.....