New rule: to comment negatively about immigrants, you have to first disclose why your own family members immigrated to the US seeking a better life, and why people facing much worse shouldn’t have the same opportunity.
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True. I think it’ll catch some unreflective people, but mostly serve as a flag to undecided others that these folks are mostly just racist and should be ignored.
Part of the problem is I think that some people's ancestors did just turn up and start murdering everyone who already lived there.
But immigrants and colonial settlers aren't the same thing.
Also you have to describe all the complicated procedures your ancestors had to follow to be legally admitted. For my ancestors I believe it was just waiting in line at Ellis Island
My great-grandpa got a boat to Canada and then jumped the border. Given that he later worked as a prison guard I assume he later got right with the Feds.
My grandfather was a draft dodger from the Tsar’s army. He lived a productive and law-abiding life and raised three sons who served this country in WW2. Immigrants built this country. We need them to continue to do so.
Trump's grandpa, though, was a draft dodger from the Germanies, came to America and worked as a pimp.
Not all immigrants, or even all draft dodgers, are good people.
But yes, I agree with you.
Mine abandoned their farm in Switzerland to get on a boat to avoid being beheaded for being the wrong variety of fundamentalist christians.
And then many fled to Canada bc they wouldn't take (revolutionary) oaths here.
We ran away bravely and often. And welcome the persecuted.
Some of mine left the Germanies to avoid the religious wars, went to England and found that their timing was ... not good and came over here.
My Scots ancestors mostly left because they'd been on the losing sides of wars or political disagreements.
Aye, and I suspect my Irish ancestor (who came over a few decades before the famine) was probably descended from Scots who'd been shipped over to go bother the Irish.
RW family friend cheerfully asserts that he is closing the door behind him so he can have all the good stuff that he has so long enjoyed. If immigrants come in, they will take it!
Nice hypocrisy screener but frankly, I won’t listen to people judging the undocumented unless they first go to Brazil, then walk to Colombia and then go, with no planes involved, through Darien and on through Central America and MX all the way to the border. If they survive that.
My great-grandmother got scarlet fever while visiting relatives in WI. Her parents returned to Europe and left her here to recuperate (she was 9 years old) and she just stayed. I don't know if she ever officially immigrated; she may have been ridin' dirty the whole time.
One grandmother was Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, one grandfather moved back to Sweden, the other two were Catholic in places that didn't care for Catholics.
