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The Trump-Thing Reiterates: "I Am a Stable Genius"

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Blind Frog Belly White1/29/2018 11:04:18 am PST

re: #282 Kragar

American History in a nutshell:

“We can’t let the Catholics live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Irish live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Orientals live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Jews live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Hispanics/Africans live here! They’ll never assimilate!”

Goes back further. In 1750 Ben Franklin was saying the same about the Germans in Pennsylvania.

Oddly enough, at least with respect to the Amish and Old Order Mennonites, he was actually correct.