Ocasio-Cortez: Latinos Can’t Be Illegals Because They’re ‘Descendants of Native People’

Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 6 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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There. I guess she told us!

How in the world did this glittering jewel of ignorance get elected? A part of the answer, of course, is that today's system of education is focused on "social justice" etc. rather than teaching the fundamentals that some of us grew up learning. Civics, American History, etc.

I have to ask... have we lost this country?


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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    She was elected by one district in NY. Worse, and far deeper, is that Democrats across the country have embraced her as their spiritual ideal.

    Watch how they are willing to waffle on the embarrassing, impossible policies of the moment and the gross misstatements of fact, but always go back to the basic moral premise of her altruism/collectivism.

    They tell us not to worry about the details of "policies" and to embrace their "Plan". There is no backing down on that.

    It's as if the fact that someone with her overt collectivism could be elected and is willing to speak out with no qualifications has released them from reluctance to publicly acknowledge and embrace what they have believed all along: "Venezuela For All!"
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was After JW became president...never said how long after...oh, by the way, one does not have to adhere to any organization of the teachings to attend.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It isn't just education in the sense of history and economics -- it's the spread of altruism and collectivism as a moral ideal. That is a big part of the indoctrination in "education".
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Her "retractions" are dismissals of the significance of the falsehoods while coming down harder on the ideology: “People are trying to take the focus away from the big picture to these little typos.”
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hillsdale is a religious conservative institution that was founded in 1844, over half a century after George Washington became president.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was bought...get this, After we won the war against mexico...all the way down to mexico city...we gave much back that we won and bought the rest...that the real story as best I can remember.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That college started after Washington became president, and they are dedicated to teaching the Constitution as written.

    They do not take government money.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hillsdale is offering an on line course on the Constitution and I hear a really informed gentleman is doing a series on WWII from memory and a learned friend of mine is really enjoying it!
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  • Posted by VicW 6 years, 2 months ago
    Ignorance is the sign of the times and highly encouraged by the media. Lantinos would not be illegal and do have rights IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. Unless of course they choose to become AMERICAN CITIZENS.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Most "native" peoples had no concept of property rights and ownership, meaning there was no land to "take". They "took" each other in brutal conquest.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It means she can't understand Latin any better than English. Maybe "Latino" means "a little Latin".
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Remember Ayn Rand's "Global Balkanization" on ethnic tribalism. "Ethnic" is race plus tradition.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Indigenous" is a relative term being used as a frozen abstraction. It's the same fallacy as the viro preservationists who want to "restore the forests" to an arbitrary point in time. The significance to those employing both fallacies is that they want whatever is not us.
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah! So...
    In? Farting cows are now our best friends.
    Out? High-speed rail from Los Angeles to Honolulu

    Everything is now fine for the low IQ voting block and dead Republicans who now consistently vote Democrat.
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My current (and growing) collection of scurrilous names for our latest Congresschild:
    Alexandria Occasional-Cortex
    Alexandria Oreo-Kotex
    Alexandria Sock-Puppet
    Nostradumbass
    Ocrazio

    I've got long lists for most of the Demorats, Demoncrats, Democraps, Dummycrats, Demsheviks (and many more).

    The latest fun quote I saw was from a recent Ben Shapiro podcast:
    "Elizabeth Warren, as we all know, is one one-thousand-twenty-fourth Native American, and Cory Booker is one one-thousand-twenty-fourth Spartacus."
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino was immediately thinking of conquistadors sacking the Mayan, Aztec and Inca empires for gold and those who came later exterminating American Indians for land.
    Latinos may have some Indian genes, but so do my kids from their mother, whose maiden name was Lawrence.
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  • Posted by DWS-UWF 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    BTW. I forgot to mention. Buying and selling person to person without any government intervention/permission scares the peediddlyshit out of the politicians, which is a good thing. ;)
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  • Posted by ycandrea 6 years, 2 months ago
    There are no peoples that are "native" to this land. We all came here from some other land. This land is not their birthright! The are not indigenous, (naturally occuring), to North or South America.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 6 years, 2 months ago
    What's most discomfiting is how AOC has become the spokesperson for all of the Democrats running for President. Are they truly that stupid, or is it that they believe enough voters are stupid enough that they should jump on the AOC bandwagon? She's too young to run for President, or I have no doubt she would have announced her campaign already. Lord help us!
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  • Posted by chad 6 years, 2 months ago
    As Estienne once pointed out; leaders are the sum of the corruption of the people they lead. If they were unwanted they would still exist, they would have no position of power.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 6 years, 2 months ago
    AOC is so naive regarding the history of the Americas. Doesn't she know about the Spanish and Portuguese colonization of Mexico through South America? I'm beginning to wonder if Californians had moved to Long Island NY. Or I'm beginning to suspect that voters across the US had cast their ballots for the most attractive and the best dressed candidate. Which I believed happened here in Az with the election of Kirsten Sinema to the US Senate. It could be that there are too many liberal Californians had moved to Az. It must the dumbing down of millennials is to blame.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 6 years, 2 months ago
    She is leveraging the sickest parts of our human nature. For the same reason 90% of all stock traders lose money... We are wired FULL of BIAS. Cognitive Biases, etc.

    So, the linguistics used are ones that are full of confirmation bias. Plus the desire to "Not Offend" and "Not Offend the weakest among us".

    It is FAR worse to offend a young lady than a young man, especially today.

    So, GOOGLEY Eyes smiles, says IDIOTIC things (to those whose cognitive bias is opposite hers), and to those that are HYPNOTIZED by how she speaks to the "heart" of the issue with all of those "Woke" Feels... And they don't even have to listen.

    They vote, because she represents THEIR VALUES and FEELINGS.

    (Of course, she is a politician. She does NOT really. To here it is a script and part of the act to get her job. She has been "well trained" by our education system in saying the right things to get ahead).

    We shake our heads (sideways), and those moochers and looters shake their heads (up and down, chanting "Yeah, Right!") Which means they will NOT listen to reason, because it would be akin to admitting they are wrong!
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