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Washington Post Headline: Trump Attacks Protections for Immigrants From 'Shithole' Countries in Oval Office Meeting

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Blind Frog Belly White1/11/2018 5:13:48 pm PST

re: #304 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

my answer to the gormless racists who didn’t see anything unusual about this statement:

the ancestors of everybody in this country came from some fucked up shithole

that’s why we’re here

I made the argument last year that America used to be the country of people who weren’t satisfied with where they were. But now, America is old enough to have families that have lived hundreds of years in the same place. And interestingly, one of the best predictors of support for Trump was whether or not you’d moved away from where you grew up.

I argued that immigrants, who weren’t satisfied where they were and came here, as well as those of us who have moved hundreds or thousands of miles, to build our lives in new places, are more American than those folks unwilling to move out of their home towns.