Was away for a week visiting my parents. Don’t get to see them nearly enough, in no small part thanks to our lovely “European Values” meaning they have to jump through more hoops to come visit us in Ireland than they can manage at their age. You see, we don’t really see non-Europeans as human in Europe. They’re something less. A potential threat.
I may have an EU passport and pass for white but I never forget that. In fact, I think about it every time I miss my parents.
The #GOP has said it won’t provide further aid for #Ukraine unless it’s in exchange for a set of policies aimed at harming immigrants and asylum-seekers.
They euphemistically call it “border security,” but it’s more #xenophobia, white nationalism, and anti-immigrant demagoguery. Any reasonable idea at #immigration reform is buried in hate.
So what are they pushing for, and what’s the state of “debate”? A chronological thread of highlights from AP stories:
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"There is also this incorrect narrative that evangelicals held their nose and voted for Trump. But there is really no evidence for that. White evangelicals support Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and his anti-black rhetoric and all those related racial grievance issues. They were breathing comfortably and freely when they pulled the lever for Trump in both 2016 and 2020."
Love & Thai restaurant in #Fresno, #California is open in a different location.
A baseless accusation grounded in a #racist#stereotype about #AsianFood using dog meat brought a 6 month barrage of #harassment so heated Rasavong, 41, closed down its previous location over fears for family safety.
It is amazing, how fast slavs are accused of racism as soon as they point to discrimination and xenophobia towards them despite the color of their skin. And this is a closed door among many westerns including #anarchist I met in last years. A thread #xenophobia
Fat chance. Head office is complicit. When you have a Tory member of the HoL, Warsi, decrying it ( and being ignored as she has been for years) you know nothing will change.
Remember this is a party who cheered for the Blackshirts 60 years ago and they have simply shifted their hatred. Bravermann was Home Secretary for gods sake.
"Ever since Fred Koch started funding the John Birch Society’s 'Impeach Earl Warren' billboards in the 1950s and 1960s Republicans have used the issue of race (and its subset: immigration) as a wedge to tear Americans apart."
I see this instance has a nicelong character limit for posts.
I have a Ph.D. in Human Science (2016, Saybrook University), which is about the experience of being human in social contexts. It is the mother of the social sciences but is now, at least in the English speaking world, and at least as far as I can tell, a dead field.
In #kyriarchy, I mostly focus on #classism and #ageism, but since arriving in Pittsburgh, have been confronted with blatant #racism (and yes, many white people here do see it). But #SocialJustice has to be for everybody; to focus on any one identity, to the exclusion of others, is nothing more than to elevate that identity over that of the predominantly wealthy white males who are now in charge.
Human beings have #HumanRights. These rights are not constrained by their governments' failures to ratify certain human rights treaties.
#Borders exist to mark off territory controlled by elites whose competition accounts for most if not all wars and to deny human beings on the "wrong" side of an arbitrary line rights and privileges available on the "right" side. This cannot be justified ethically. I am hostile to #xenophobia
Finally, I am pessimistic about the future of humanity. #COVID19 and the #ClimateCrisis demonstrate our unfitness for survival.
More #xenophobia and anti-#chinese#racebaiting. TikTok isn’t doing anything more egregious than what Meta, X, Snapchat, or any number of popular social media platforms are doing. If these committee members were actually serious, they would author a bill that protects consumers from exploitation no matter who owns the platforms.
Yes, I know. Election year.
“US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users”
Does it surprise anyone? The graphic reminds of the useless wet wipes recent contribution to what they refer to as democracy in England. He was just as despicable then.
“'Why do you use words like ‘vermin’ and ‘poisoning of the blood"?' Howard Kurtz, the media critic and interviewer, asked on Fox News. 'The press, as you know, immediately reacts to that by saying, "Well, that’s the kind of language that Hitler and Mussolini used."' 'Because our country is being poisoned,' Mr. Trump responded."
"If Donald Trump gets back to the Oval Office, it will be because — once again — rural Whites put him there. Which is why I hope that White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, my new book with Tom Schaller, will be particularly timely as we head into the general election."
Then he provides an overview of the book, which explores the implications of this central finding:
Hopefully not too long, but it will be dirty and much to the delight of Conservative funders, Labour are being fragged there as well.
It's ironic that this article is by Katy Balls - political editor of the Spectator and one of the rags that however good the writing, is delighted to encourage the herd rightwards.
Nigel Farage, who played a leading role in coaxing UK voters to Brexit by fanning flames of xenophobia and hysteria about immigration, says he's going return to political life in Britain to make its next election about immigration.
Republicans in the US say they will cede nothing to Biden because they want to attack him with hysteria about immigration.
Stirring hostility to and fear of immigrants is the go-to tactic of the political right.
We need to stop trying to make antisemites like us.
When #Churchill carpet-bombed Hamburg, Essen, Cologne, and Dresden, he was not trying to win a popularity contest. When Harry #Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was not looking to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Those who protect and enable #Hamas’ #genocide, like the utterly antisemitic and immoral United Nations and #Qatar, must be resisted and their reputations destroyed. American abominations like Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and American Taliban like Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) must have their hatred, bigotry, and antisemitism attacked and exposed in the media nonstop.
They will never like us. Let’s make sure they fear us.
Today marks the beginning of Ramadan for Muslims. Our Muslim friends have had a rough go in America because of Xenophobia. So please give them some love.
I spent time learning more about their journey by meeting with some folks at a Mosque in our neighborhood. I brought them oranges and told them they had a friend.
Today In Labor History March 26, 1910: Congress amended the Immigration Act of 1907 to specifically bar entrance of “paupers, anarchists, criminals and the diseased.” The amendment was specifically designed to limit entry of Eastern and Southern European immigrants, many of whom were becoming radicalized by the deplorable working and living conditions in late 19th and early 20th century America. The law came in the midst of a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria, whipped up by government and media-generated pro-eugenics propaganda. The original law included the following statement of “undesirables” to be prohibited entry into the United States: “All idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease.”
Is this classism?
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