Not everyone thinks this, but I know an extreme right-winger who thinks this. He is also a conspiracy theorist who thinks non-white people are out to get white people so, yeah, odd.
Not every immigrant is illegal or bad. I know a girl who didn’t speak English for 3 years when her family legally immigrated, so of course she’s been told this.
Racism.
That’s i t.
That’s literally it.
- Not all US cirizens feel this way. Convict47 won by 1.5%, with 19 million less voters Thant the previous time. Voter suppression won this election.
- And for the ones that feel this way, you’ve got it absolutely right, plain old ignorant racism.
That’s the great thing about racism, it doesn’t have to make sense!
Because that would involve a level of logic and critical thinking well beyond them.
Your first mistake is assuming logic has anything to do with it.
“Shouldn’t that logic apply to…”
One must remember that people aren’t logical. They’re hypocritical and willfully ignorant.
the logic is that they think white people deserve the land more. Its plain old racism.
It is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple.
You assume logic is behind their reasoning, that’s where you went wrong
Because we have an idiot problem over here right now. The person you know is an idiot.
A lot of people are influenced by alt-right news (Fox News, Newsmax, OAN) who keep repeating the false claim that undocumented immigrants are mostly gangsters and violent criminals. In truth, undocumented immigrants are way less likely to commit a violent crime than an average American citizen.
Trump said, regarding the first deportation flight:
Three hundred people sitting on a plane. Every single one of them is either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin, the head of the mob, or a gang member
Yet none of those deportees had any criminal conviction in either country (according to Newsweek, a slightly-right news source).
remember: oligarchs are the real criminal enemy, not your fellow 99.9%
The far-right doesn’t care about logic, it’s all just good ol’ racism.
Short answer is “propaganda”. News agencies against immigration will pretty regularly swap between “illegal immigrants”, “immigrants”, and <insert current target race here> as if they’re practically interchangable to build whatever narrative they want, and also to slowly build an association between ‘people of <insert race>’, ‘being a drain on society’, and ‘being here illegally’ to get the average person to side with them.
someone called my Ukrainian coworker a wetback.
i just… want you to think about that and what it says about how dumb bigots are
Because people here are racists, yet not clever.
Send musk back please.
