Check Your Privilege Holocaust Survivors
I am not a tweeter by habit-but this is ridiculous (MSNBC). My favorite retweet-they got free healthcare and all!
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Our rules aren't racist. It's not our fault that the invasion vector is from Latino countries.
No one is saying the oppressor and their victims are morally equivalent; I do see people saying that those accused of oppression... aren't engaged in oppression.
Anyway, his lawyer has his crewmen take the stand one by one, and asks each of them to state his name and race.
For example, the chief engineer, Ernie Pryce (developer of the Stirling-Pryce hot-air engine), answers, "My name is Ernie Pryce, and my race is Ernie Pryce."
The point the lawyer makes is that each one is, genetically, unique. As I said, the whole scene needs work, but I'm trying to use it to exemplify Rand's "the smallest minority..." quote.
It was Neal Barrett who wrote it.
I didn't think so.
And I first heard this back when most places in the U.S. didn't have much in the way of "automotive standards" and cars still burned leaded gasoline...
It's all a question of value systems...
The Romans could have treated the Britons better; the Germans could have treated the French better. The Zulus could have treated everybody better. The Apaches could have treated the Cheyenne better.
It is a leftist myth that the Europeans who came to American were particularly evil, cruel and/or unique in their behavior. The only difference, morally, between the behavior of American colonists and the behavior of any other culture or civilization, *including* those of the American aborigines, was that the colonists were technologically incredibly more advanced than the stone-age cultures of N. America.
At least twice in history such invasions took place. The Germanic invasion of Rome, and the Mexico/central/south America invasion of the U.S.
Where you get the idea that an invasion requires a *military* force I have no idea. May I introduce you to the concept of a dictionary?
When a doctor performs an invasive procedure, does he call in Seal Team Six?
Borders should never keep people IN; that I'll agree with. But civilization wouldn't be possible without the definition and establishment of borders.
"“When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”"
That's like saying there's no characteristic which is exclusive to humans or gorillas.
I wouldn't want to have to kill you.
You REALLY need to apply a little logic to your statements before you press the reply button...
well, it's a thought. some would take it seriously. -- j
I was born inside the U.S. to citizens also born here.
I had no choice of family nor nation.
when I turned 22, I took an oath to support and defend this nation, etc., as a military member.
from my point of view, the nation is my extended family. my family has decided to restrict membership via immigration laws. just as my wife and I restrict membership to our family. if we conceive a child or adopt, we are extending our arms to added members. this is a completely moral choice, as is the national choice to admit members -- and if our restriction were according to race (for adoption), it would be racist.
if the nation's "adoption" rules employ racism, then they are racist. If not, they are not. if the rules require that only producers be admitted, they are not racist. the nation may close its borders to immigration, just as a family may close itself to added members.
my oath, taken as I entered the USAF in '71, is tantamount to the oath which I believe every U.S. citizen should take, before receiving the benefits of living here as an adult. and, yes, this includes roads and bridges. if you don't want to take the oath, in english, then you must leave. pick a place, and go there. leave us alone.
my family hosted a swiss exchange student when I was in high school. he told me that every swiss citizen had to either serve in the military or else pay a lifetime tax. this is an alternative view -- take the oath or pay for life, so to speak.
yes, I was privileged, and I thank God for it. I volunteered to perform, in exchange, for 28 years. we should require that everyone receiving the privilege of U.S. citizenship contribute in response, or find a charity (NOT our government) for support. or leave. -- j
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