• NotSteve_@piefed.ca
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    10 days ago

    He’s fucking American, I genuinely don’t even understand their issue with him is. I get that it’s just racism but how do they rationalise it without admitting its just racism? What are their talking points because it makes no sense

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        10 days ago

        I totally get that but usually they have some talking point to avoid directly admitting that

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          10 days ago

          This is just the mask-off, “We don’t care that he’s a US citizen…he’s not white”, kind of racism. They aren’t even pretending that there’s more to it at this point.

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              10 days ago

              Yes, but many Americans don’t know that. The name is Spanish. Hell, so many Americans don’t realize that New Mexico is a state in their own country.

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                And it wasn’t until the U.S. invaded Mexico and forced it to cede large swaths of its territory. Same with California, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

                Puerto Rico didn’t exactly beg to be annexed, either.

                I think a lot of this panic about Latin American people illegally taking over the United States stems from repressed colonial guilt.

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                  It’s more based on fear, since the US Latin population seem to be maintaining a healthy birth rate, while the white people seem to have either lost wood, can’t find the right hole, or have 'nads packed with PFAS. In some US states, whites are already a minority, and the various schemes to impose minority rule are unstable and require increasing effort as demographics keep on shifting.