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A Great Live Jam by Meshell Ndegeocello: Untitled / Atomic Dog

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gwangung5/14/2018 7:41:31 am PDT

re: #192 Jay C

Quite true, but “pulling up the ladder” is an American tradition of (only-slightly-less)as long standing as immigration itself. Reading a bit into the background of the first major attempt to restrict immigration into the US (1924): you see a lot of attitudes that the build-The-Wall Trumprrhoids echo to this day. “Native”* obsessions about cultural dilution were as active then as now - even if the influx of “poor, illiterate, unskilled” foreigners were indisputably “white” - by today’s standards: that so many contemporary incomers aren’t doesn’t make the attitudes any better.

*WASPs of course, not American Indians.

The assholes have been using the same arguments since the 19th Century….and most of the time, they haven’t even CHANGED THE WORDING. They’ve just changed the targets from the Chinese and Japanese to other peoples…but they’ll get back to us…

Think of something new, assholes.