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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts) Fri Sep 4, 2015, 02:43 PM Sep 2015

Bumped into an old college acquaintence online. A bigot then, and a bigot now. [View all]

He literally used to put swastika bumper stickers on his car.

He surprised me by saying he supported bilingual education in public schools. His reason: "If the Mexicans learn English, then in addition to taking all the crap jobs we don't want anyway, they'll be able to take the good jobs away from us too. We need to discourage them from learning English in any way we can. We need to encourage them to keep their own culture so they won't be able to assimilate into our culture."

How should I respond to that? I'm at a loss for words.

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Bumped into an old college acquaintence online. A bigot then, and a bigot now. [View all] Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 OP

You simply can't respond to that. Butterbean Sep 2015 #1

Back quietly away. hifiguy Sep 2015 #2

Just tell him that what he said sounded way better in the original German and leave it at that. nt MrScorpio Sep 2015 #3

People change. Some don't. closeupready Sep 2015 #4

Run into lot of bigots from High School on Facebook. By college, learned how to avoid them. Hoyt Sep 2015 #5

I agree with all your replies, but what really bothers me is... Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 #6

Is there any evidence that bilingual education slows learning? yardwork Sep 2015 #7

I think "bilingual" was the wrong term for me to use. Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 #8