• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Our leaders wouldn’t mind that except that immigrants might come from countries where they grew up with access to banned books…

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      I don’t think that racism boils down to red scare or whatever you are implying. Racism has a long tradition like the Asian Exclamation Act from 1924

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        I’m implying that our leaders don’t want immigrants for the same reason they gut our educational funding, and that they attack our librarians. An educated population scares them.

        The average immigrant has been educated (by school or by life) outside our controlling parties’ spans of influence.

        I’m from a country with a very narrow span of acceptable political ideas. The average imported person will expand our horizons, and weaken our fragile belief that our current two party system serves our best interests.

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          be for real. our leaders don’t want immigrant people because they [the leaders] are white supremacists and/or want the support of white supremacists. they don’t like poor, uneducated immigrant people either (in fact they hate them even more!)