silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThe Right-Wing Dream of ‘Self-Deportation’ | Some conservatives have a grim proposal to make undocumented immigrants leave: Exclude their children from schools.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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This is exceptionally cruel, and condemns kids (many of whom are US citizens) to a lifetime of poverty. A similar measure in California passed a generation ago, was struck down by the courts, and helped usher in an era where the Republican party in the state is permanently in the minority.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·4 months agoThe Republican party has no plans to do that though; they want to end immigration by people with skin darker than theirs.
minus-squarebane_killgrind@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·4 months agoIt’s not racist to point out other people being prejudiced. It’s not even hard to find examples of the “no proof” https://time.com/4473972/donald-trump-mexico-meeting-insult/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/senator-john-kennedy-mexico-drug-cartels It’s pretty obvious who they spend time demonizing.
minus-squaretoomanypancakes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months agoThe Republican party is pretty racist, yeah.
minus-squareThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoAs myopic and divorced from reality as it is, I appreciate the brazen simplicity of your worldview. Snuggled up in your security blanket of ignorance, inoculated from the pain of confronting cognitive dissonance, or growth.
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoDenial is absolutely a consistent way to view things, yes.
The Republican party has no plans to do that though; they want to end immigration by people with skin darker than theirs.
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It’s not racist to point out other people being prejudiced.
It’s not even hard to find examples of the “no proof” https://time.com/4473972/donald-trump-mexico-meeting-insult/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/senator-john-kennedy-mexico-drug-cartels
It’s pretty obvious who they spend time demonizing.
The Republican party is pretty racist, yeah.
As myopic and divorced from reality as it is, I appreciate the brazen simplicity of your worldview. Snuggled up in your security blanket of ignorance, inoculated from the pain of confronting cognitive dissonance, or growth.
Denial is absolutely a consistent way to view things, yes.