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IronLionZion

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12. Trumpsters often assume others agree with them for some reason
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 09:14 AM
Jun 2017

And don't see the irony in that farms want affordable labor and not many Pennsylvanians are applying for fruit picking jobs. States like Arizona and Alabama that have cracked down hard on migrant workers have seen economic difficulty for the small farms who depend on this labor.

But sometimes a similar mentality is shown even on some liberal discussion boards where people think Indians are stealing tech jobs. People often assume that an Indian person is on some kind of work visa like H1b instead of being born and raised here, on a permanent residency (green card), or became a naturalized US citizen.

This happens with some Latinos too. Out west, Latino farmers exist whose families never crossed the border, the border crossed them.

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Yes, they have been given "official/top-of-the-ticket permission" to vent their racism BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #1
Racism and bigotry are anti-American. They are ugly in any setting. The Wielding Truth Jun 2017 #2
Unfortunately, racism is the single best correlator for voting for tRump, seen by study of searches Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #3
Bigotry is in the Republican DNA along with lying. The Wizard Jun 2017 #9
The one thing I would disagree with in the above BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #16
F..ing Irish. Or F..ing Italians. If it were 50 years ago or more sharedvalues Jun 2017 #4
Yep! Some of the racism among right-wingers today also comes from... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #10
Trump and the Right have given people licence to say what they have always felt Chasstev365 Jun 2017 #5
Well, there is something wrong with breaking the law. Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #7
Aw, geez. Even at an ice cream place when a father is with his son. I'm sick of this. Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #6
Reagan made it comfortable to begin with. It's been downhill since the Reagan era. nikibatts Jun 2017 #8
Nixon preceded him with the "Southern Strategy" after the Civil Rights... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #11
Trumpsters often assume others agree with them for some reason IronLionZion Jun 2017 #12
I've experienced that attitude as a white man. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #13
Sorry to say I'm much mor suspicious of white men these days... Dream Girl Jun 2017 #14
There's a bunch of white people who aren't that way, of course, but... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #15
Yes, I do stereotype based on appearance...baseball caps, jackets, flannel shirts, Dream Girl Jun 2017 #17
Those are some of the same sterotypes for me too. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #18
Jus' wondering-- calendargirl Jun 2017 #19
Did the OP say the Hispanic looking gentleman is a fruit picker? Ptah Jun 2017 #20
No.. calendargirl Jun 2017 #21
There is hope, the times, they are a changing Alea Jun 2017 #22
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