Discussion for article #238211
I think this article would be better headlined as “Historically, Trump has it backwards…”
Not to defend the Donald, but does this have relevance to his nasty (insane) comments today?
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Thanks for the comment. Headlines are always a bit extreme/hyperbolic, but I would say two things: it’s relevant that his anti-Mexican bigotry is nothing new, and thus just reflects a long strain of our thought; and it’s relevant that, then and now, that bigotry is entirely inaccurate to our histories, and thus as ignorant of the past as in every other way.
Thanks,
Ben
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Plus the money that the Anglo intermediaries never paid the Bracero Workers during the WW2 labor shortage that legally brought Mexican workers to the US.
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I hate that Texas, which we stole fair and square, is coming unstole! Take back our state!
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Take The Donald to any convenience store. Make him watch the Mexican workers buy (mostly healthy) food, bottled water, phone cards and motor oil with cash. Then have him watch the white construction and road crew workers buy energy drinks, the junkiest food possible and (try to buy) ciggies, lottery tickets and 40s with their food stamp cards.
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Given the vaccination rates in Mexico (and other C.A. countries) vs. those in the U.S. (propelled by the supremely confused “anti-vaxxers”), the fear of disease being brought in by undocumented immigrants from south of the border is particularly misplaced.
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Yeah except many of the idiots that were bashing Obamacare were worried “illegals” would get their kids vaccinated. For Free! So they weren’t really worried about disease, were they?
I remember when I first moved to So. Cal going to a neighbor’s house and there were a ton of Hispanic guys just hanging out in his yard. Found out later he did landscape construction and after the work was done, he’d bring his day laborers back to his house while he showered, ate dinner, pissed away time while they waited to be taken back to where they were picked up and paid. It hit me that they had no protection from this other than word of mouth and not working for him again.
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Given that Trump is an anti-vaxxer those Mexicans that he accuses of harboring and spreading diseases probably have better immune systems than him.
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Trump seems to have the peculiar notion that Texas’ and the Southwest’s towns, rivers, streams, and other geographic features were named by some strange anglo pilgrim whose only reading matter was a Spanish dictionary.
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Starting around 1800 manifest destiny decreed that anglos would rule all the land on their terms. The indigenous peoples greatly underestimated the ferocity of the newcomers, and had no idea of the equally fatal diseases that accompanied the white man. Lewis & Clark noted French traders had spread syphilis to tribes in the Pacific Northwest. Dakota tribes were deliberately infected with devastating smallpox epidemics. The Civil War was extended far to the western territories to finish off native hostilities so that settlers could claim the land and exploit the resources. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California Hispanic and Mexican citizens were no match against Gringo troops.
All of this ugly history was sanitized for the comfort of the conquers who thanks to a continent full of natural resources to exploit convinced themselves that they were the greatest nation in the world. And so we come to have the likes of Donald Trump who have no idea what working to support family means. The disgust Trump feels for himself is projected back on the little people. He is not so much out of touch with immigrants as he is aware deep in his heart what an egotistic fool he is.
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He’s definitely going to appeal to a majority of republicans doing this and if he really wants to win a landslide in the republican primaries he needs to start bitching about black folks. And I’m kind of ok with him saying it even if I think it’s BS because when he wins the republican slot, whoever the democratic candidate is will win in probably the most historic landslide ever.
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