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January 16, 2013 07:26 AM UTC
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acknowledged crazy bigot, has never made a secret of his distaste for all Mexican and other Latin American immigration (the people who remodeled his basement, I suppose, should have gone back to Mexico immediately after), not just the illegal variety. Many on the right barely, if at all, bother to attempt to disguise their fear of “brown” culture over-running “white” culture. They are notably not hysterical over the Canadian border or Dutch people over-staying visas.
Coming from Tancredo this is a hoot since his kind of swarthy immigrant ancestors were considered next door to subhuman when they came to our shores and nobody is ever going to mistake him for a Viking or anything. He may join in singing about Dixie all he likes but the KKK wasn’t too fond of his kind either. One suspects he goes to sleep praying to wake up tall and blonde.
I think its Malthusianism that is what is driving him.
he so clearly and unapologetically is, I must assume you are a recent arrival to our lovely planet. Welcome and please start paying attention.
Be VERY careful before you start calling people bigots. Best to give them the benefit of the doubt and explain their motivations by some other mechanism if possible.
we are talking about here. No shortage of evidence..
You have been on Mars or something…??
to the Martians . . . Elliot nothwithstanding; there’s still no proof that there’s not some sort of intelligent life there.
“lessons” from you, darlin’. I base my analysis of Tancredo on years of hearing and reading the words out of his own mouth and other concrete evidence. You might want to dial back the self-righteousness a tad. Just a suggestion, though, not a “lesson”.
For immigration reform to pass, it must get through the House. Which is GOP controlled and has heavy Tea Party influence. Taking the attitude that opposing immigration reform is “racist” is a quick way NOT to influence that chamber.
You get more flies with honey than vinegar.
as a bigoted racist is not generated solely by “opposing immigration reform.”
Nothing of import is going to pass the 113th. It may turn out to be even more dysfunctional than the 112th.
My comment is about a specific person, Tom Tancredo, and about your self righteous assumption that I am in need of being taught lessons by you in your superior wisdom. So, two things:
1)As per this particular discussion, nothing you have chosen to note in your most recent reply in place of discussing the individual named Tom Tancredo is relevant.
2) I recognize neither your authority to be my teacher nor my need for instruction in the matter of recognizing bigotry when I see it.
As a side note, atop a high horse is not a useful position from which to conduct meaningful discussion.
After you have successfully convinced two or three people who were anti-immigrant to see the error in their ways, let’s talk.
That’s another discussion. You keep evading the subjects of this discussion.
The only subjects of the discussion I’ve been attempting to have with you with no success, are whether or not there is concrete evidence that Tancredo is a bigot, thereby making my saying that he is a bigot an objective assessment, not name calling, and whether or not you are justified in assuming yourself to be in a position to teach me “lessons”. That’s it.
Since you clearly have no intention of addressing those two issues there is no point in further discussion. Your responses to me are simply not relevant, being responses that belong in another discussion about something else. You either can’t or choose not to focus on the matters at hand, probably the latter.
Changing the subject is such a transparent way of evading it, yet I find that’s what righties do most often since the reality based world seems to them to be intrinsically biased against them.
Oh, by the way, how many of your Tea Party friends are now ardent supporters of the kind of immigration reform you envision because of your skills in winning people over? Never mind. You won’t answer and I’m too tired of not getting direct responses to pursue more non-discussion with you.
To call somebody a bigot/racist you need much greater evidence than anything that might be out there on Tancredo. Moreover, going that route is simply not productive if your goal is to change minds on the topic of immigration, which is my goal here.
As for supporters of immigration reform, tune into 560 AM sometime. Jason Worley is a supporter of it, largely due to conversations I have had with him. There are a lot of others too.
The evidence of Tom Tancredo’s bigotry is overwhelming.
Open the borders.
Let them come in.
Give them all green cards.
The more the merrier.
As that means no border inspection. I favor border inspections…I just think the criteria we use now do not serve the national interest and as such should be reexamined.
wider availability of more authentic ethnic food of all kinds.
Otherwise,I’m okay with ethnic cooking’-)
Jews of Eastern European extraction would be allowed?
crazy kind of “fusion”.
Confession: My family is lax to the point that my favorite childhood after school snack was a ham sandwich. Never was the cookie type.
was the more liberal. The winner was the one whose synagogue was so liberal it closed for Jewish holidays;-)
I am agnostic myself but if I had to pick a religion it would be reform judaism, which combines a rational approach to the world with a respect and reverence for the historical roots of religious thought.
Fond and respectful of my heritage and attached to some of the traditions. Enjoy a nice reform service once or twice a year. The sermons are always topical. Never about staying out of hell or anything. I think I’m not exactly agnostic but what I believe in is probably abstract enough that the difference between what I am and agnostic is hard to quantify. Suffice to say I do believe in a spiritual aspect of what I believe to be the central mystery of existence; infinity. It’s a tough nut to crack from either the vantage of science/math or that of religion.
I saw this thing once in a pond…
it swam like a duck
it walked like a duck
it even quacked like a duck.
I guess it’s possible I don’t know what a duck is…but….