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06-11-2016, 05:25 PM
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Good one Raj.
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06-11-2016, 06:07 PM
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I think it's stereotyping.
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06-11-2016, 08:52 PM
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Zero, have you ever been to Mexico, or San Diego, for a week.
Many Mexicans view a country where they can get a job to be paradise. The illegals, semi-legals, legals, and naturalized I know work like dogs, and then find a second job, and hit the thrifts and garage sales every weekend to stretch their family dollars as far as possible.
One of my best friends in high school had a mother who walked 300 miles while pregnant with him to sneak into the US, and fifteen years later they had a nice house in our town. People want a chance to get somewhere in life, and the US used to be a shining example of a place you could do that.
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06-11-2016, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by sheltiedave
Zero, have you ever been to Mexico, or San Diego, for a week.
Many Mexicans view a country where they can get a job to be paradise. The illegals, semi-legals, legals, and naturalized I know work like dogs, and then find a second job, and hit the thrifts and garage sales every weekend to stretch their family dollars as far as possible.
One of my best friends in high school had a mother who walked 300 miles while pregnant with him to sneak into the US, and fifteen years later they had a nice house in our town. People want a chance to get somewhere in life, and the US used to be a shining example of a place you could do that.
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There are many Mexicans here and have been for decades. Started out mostly as migrant farm workers and now many have started businesses. I have worked beside them in the field. I do not know a soul around here who has ever looked down at them or treated them poorly. They work and take a lot of pride in it. That is the reason I find the whole racism thing a little curious. But, it may be entirely different in other parts of the country.
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06-11-2016, 10:22 PM
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There are many Mexicans here and have been for decades. Started out mostly as migrant farm workers and now many have started businesses. I have worked beside them in the field. I do not know a soul around here who has ever looked down at them or treated them poorly. They work and take a lot of pride in it. That is the reason I find the whole racism thing a little curious. But, it may be entirely different in other parts of the country.
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There's no end of ways to be racist. I kinda doubt if anyone is all of them at once. But thinking well of people you happen to know, and getting along with them, and stuff, does not preclude believing out-there stuff about people you don't know. Like a judge from Indiana, for example.
Ever notice how people are often really inconsistent?
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06-12-2016, 06:32 AM
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There's no end of ways to be racist. I kinda doubt if anyone is all of them at once. But thinking well of people you happen to know, and getting along with them, and stuff, does not preclude believing out-there stuff about people you don't know. Like a judge from Indiana, for example.
Ever notice how people are often really inconsistent?
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You can dance around it all you want to, but you are obviously a racist.
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06-12-2016, 07:48 AM
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You can dance around it all you want to, but you are obviously a racist.
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You've fallen back on a broken-record name-calling tactic. Conversation therefore impossible and won't be attempted by me. I reserve the right to comment on your posts as I see fit, of course.
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06-12-2016, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by sheltiedave
Zero, have you ever been to Mexico, or San Diego, for a week.
Many Mexicans view a country where they can get a job to be paradise. The illegals, semi-legals, legals, and naturalized I know work like dogs, and then find a second job, and hit the thrifts and garage sales every weekend to stretch their family dollars as far as possible.
One of my best friends in high school had a mother who walked 300 miles while pregnant with him to sneak into the US, and fifteen years later they had a nice house in our town. People want a chance to get somewhere in life, and the US used to be a shining example of a place you could do that.
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Well hells bells, let's just take down the fences, customs check points, repeal the immigration and naturalization laws and processes, abolish ICE, redeploy the border control officers, and let anyone in who wants to come in. Paradise should have no impediments to access, right?
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06-12-2016, 10:32 AM
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Well hells bells, let's just take down the fences, customs check points, repeal the immigration and naturalization laws and processes, abolish ICE, redeploy the border control officers, and let anyone in who wants to come in. Paradise should have no impediments to access, right?
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Is everything absolutes with you?
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06-12-2016, 11:39 AM
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Is everything absolutes with you?
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Either follow the law, change the law or repeal the law. When you have "selective enforcement" or whatever the hell you call what we're doing right now, you get a mess.
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