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It should also be noted that many people in Latin America also attempt to immigrate to America in order to flee oppressive conditions in their home countries, but are blocked from doing so due to the current immigration policies of the United States, which weren't in place when Jews were fleeing Europe during WWII. There's a documentary called "Harvest of Empire" which goes into great detail about this:
Harvest of Empire Trailer:
http://vimeo.com/48145023
Harvest of Empire Website:
http://harvestofempiremovie.com/
This was the lab that also taught me about prejudice and glass ceilings. Most of the Latino techs working there were very bright - I suspect that they might have been doctors under other circumstances. One of them, the microbiologist, spoke some English and was working his way through college...he might even have made it through the glass ceiling.
Jan
So there is an answer to the problem of sexism: smack'upside the head with a stick a few times and recalibrate their world view.
Jan
*(unless someone has warned him)
A couple of anthropologists are studying an alien culture on another planet. The planet grows trees miles high, and the aliens live along the tree branches and in the trunks.
What makes the aliens worth studying is that they are the most extremely sexist species imaginable. Literally, the males live on their side as homosexuals, and the females live on their side as lesbians. To cross the line would result in a very... very ugly death. Once a year or so, they'd be forced to get together to make babies, and for those who participated, that was the end of their sex lives. They became untouchables.
So, one day the male anthropologist, we'll call him Hamby Flagg because that was his name, saw something he shouldn't have seen and lived to talk about. A messenger had come from another tree (to each tribe, there was no world beyond their own tree); his hair was plucked out and he was quite dead.
So all the Lemmits (the aliens) went on a forced trek... and they came to where one of the trees was about to collapse. The Lemmits being studied pushed the members of the other tribe off the branches one by one. And then the other tree collapsed.
Because they had witnessed this, the humans were not permitted to return to the tree. They were blocked from going higher in the tree (which they needed to do to be retrieved), and had to go down down the tree to the ground level.
Where they discovered the cause of the trees' deaths... working for thousands of years, a race of giants were trying to cut down each tree with stone tools.
Running from these creatures, the humans stumbled upon the ruins of a civilization.
They escape and climb up another tree to be rescued.
The Lemmits had kept the giants as slaves, and one day there was a rebellion and the Lemmits were driven to the trees. Their guilt was so great, that they committed genocidal-suicide. They were slowing dying off, hundreds of generations later, with no one on either side remembering the reasons for the hate or the guilt each subsequent generation still felt.
Yes, caucasian-Americans remind me of that, because I see them, driven by a guilt I don't feel, destroying everything they built in the name of an unassuageable, phantom guilt.
Let me tell you a story you won't like (don't worry, I won't be vulgar).
I guess I understand human nature better than most people, because I don't blind myself to the "dark side". I guess that, because I see things coming decades before pretty much everybody else. So I get to spend decades being derided and insulted... until it's too late.
Back in the 1970s, might have been earlier, you started seeing black, male celebrities start complaining about the term "boy" being applied to adult black men. I thought this reasonable.
In movies like, "In the Heat of the Night" (I think that was one of them) it was made a propaganda issue.
I thought at the time, "Fine, black, adult men shouldn't be called boy. But, I'll be damned if I'll let them start calling ME 'boy' in reparation..."
Not more than a few years later, you started hearing, in movies and television shows, at first applied to teenaged white males, "white boy". In recent years, although unmistakably mature physically, I've been referred to as "white boy", without an eyebrow being raised. This was long after seeing it used in movies, television, advertising...
The point being, perhaps the Jewish people should have raised hell about being persecuted before their wealth was stripped from them and they were herded off to death camps?
So, you keep sneering at the idea of Caucasians and Christians being persecuted while the persecution is still in its embryonic stage. But then remain silent when the death camps first appear as re-education camps.
At least the death camps of WWII weren't run by Jews...
Let's apply this open border rule Maph wants to apply to the country to... say.. your house...
There's an old story, dunno if it's true, about a border patrol agent. Every weekend, he'd see this guy drive his white Cadillac into Mexico. The guy just... looked suspicious. He knew the guy was up to something.
He'd stop the guy and search his car top to bottom, search the guy, his baggage... nothing.
Years later, the border patrol agent retired. He took a vacation to a small seaside Mexican town, and there, sitting at a cafe, was the Cadillac man.
So the agent sits down beside him and says, "I don't know if you remember me, but years ago, I was a border patrol agent. Every weekend you'd come down to Mexico and I'd search your car. I was *certain* you were smuggling something, but, man you sure beat me."
The other man smiled and said, "I was smuggling something. I was smuggling white Cadillacs..."
You need an SS number to get a job, too. This is why "identity theft" has been one of the fastest growing crimes.
They don't need SSN to use the emergency room, and they buy and "creatively acquire" SSN, driver licenses and other required documentation.
I know, I used to sit and eat lunch listening to illegals trade recipes on ways of milking the system...
It has courthouses; it has businesses; it has utilities. It has homes It's not a club, it's a community. An extended tribe.
Why would a "club" be any more righteous in controlling who enters a region under their control than a nation?
I’ll be damn if I will be impressed with a social movement that got it’s origins most likely from a late-night of reefer-smoking and Cheetos crunching.
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