Today in Labor History February 2, 1931: U.S. citizens of Mexican heritage were “repatriated” to Mexico. During the decade’s first four years, the federal government deported anywhere from several hundred thousand to 1.8 million Mexicans. 40-60% of those deported were U.S. citizens and overwhelmingly children. President Hoover blamed Mexicans for the Great Depression and deported them in huge numbers to win support from his right-wing base.
Peter Wehner wants us to believe that "Donald Trump has made the Republican Party cruel, xenophobic, exclusionary, and bigoted."
The reality is, Republicans themselves have made their party all of those things, with Trump as its face — with Trump as their face.
Republicans have, with Trump as their face, pandered to cruelty, xenophobia, bigotry, for years now. We are all reaping the whirlwind from their sowing of the wind.
Rohingya Refugees File PIL Against Facebook in Delhi High Court
The petition records how several Facebook users in India often used the terms such as – ‘illegal migrants’, ‘enemies of the country’ and ‘Bangladeshis’ to target the Rohingya who are predominantly Muslim.
"In addition to “a member of a criminal street gang” and someone who “has been convicted of a gang-related offense”, the bill defines a terrorist as “any person who is of Hispanic descent living within the state of Oklahoma”."
Ohio-born Vivek Ramaswamy is having trouble connecting with the base of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party because they think he's a Muslim immigrant who hates America. #gop#xenophobia ##ramaswamy
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.
True #OpenSource is the opposite of #xenophobia. “Let’s do away with Not Invented Here syndrome,” is my message after another visit across the fence. “There’s a new maxim in town.”
Sociologist Mathew Creighton at University College Dublin argues in his upcoming book, Hidden Hate, that economic concerns are an “an excuse rather than a motive.” A percentage of the population harbours strategically hidden xenophobic sentiments, he suggests. As a result, what might look like a rise in hatred is often a reduction in the social stigma against expressing #xenophobia publicly. #hate#politicshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03973-9
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.
It's the tactic they always use, in one place after another across the planet, to try to move a culture to the right, to prepare the way for a strongman to appear with bogus promises of solving folks' problems, especially the problem of those fearsome immigrants said to be swamping this and that nation.
Sadly, this tactic is increasingly successful, because too many people in too many places are ready to be energized by hatred of the other, the immigrant.
"Donald Trump, just weeks after using the fascist terminology 'vermin' to describe sections of American society he dislikes, again declared at a New Hampshire rally that immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.'" …
“They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America … but all over the world.
“They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
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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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
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.
There's an odd social phenomenon tied to the "marketplace of ideas." It always starts with a stated intent to give voice to the marginalized, and it always ends with the establishment and protection of xenophobic hate speech against those same marginalized people.