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Cause, on 16 July 2019 - 09:17 AM, said:
Azath Vitr (D, on 15 July 2019 - 11:06 PM, said:
worry, on 14 July 2019 - 08:29 PM, said:
Everyone's probably heard about it already, but it's worth noting here (for posterity at least) that President Donald Trump went full out "Go back to Africa" this morning on Twitter, to four sitting congress members. Is it worth noting that three of them were born in the US and the one who was born abroad came to the US as a child refugee? Like even if they were all born in Africa or other "shithole countries," it would still be racist. But in this case there's also the brazen domestic white nationalism of it all, the emphasis on who is really American, who the country really belongs to, no matter what we pretend about 'citizenship' when it's convenient.
Yes, but AOC and Tlaib are the children of immigrants, and his use of 'they' was ambiguous. Blaring dog whistle? Certainly. But as with so many of Trump's statements he maintains a garishly thin veneer of 'plausible deniability.'
[Edit: I was wrong, AOC's mother is from Puerto Rico, which is part of the US o A. So not really an immigrant. However, probably still close enough for that 'plausible deniability'---which stopped being plausible from Trump a long time ago.]
There is no veneer as I am aware. He said They, but to my knowledge their is excactly one congresswomen who was not born in the USA (The one from Somalia, who moved to the US at 7 years old I believe I read). In any event he is still saying that black people, except maybe the descendants of the slaves, are not true citizens whatever the law might say. You cant be eligible to be a congresswomen if your not a citizen. He is saying their citizenship is not good enough for him. Put this is the contecxt of trump saying that Brack Obama was too black to be American and demanding his birth certificate and the pattern is clear. As if the CIA and FBI and whoever else checks security clearances etc wouldn't know where the president of the united states was born.
He is unworthy
Wonder if he'll feel obliged now to tell Mayor Pete to go back to Malta. (And Bernie Sanders to go back to Germany?... actually his father and Chuck Schumer's family were from 'Galicia' in Poland/Ukraine.)
If Kamala Harris wins the nomination he's almost certainly going to tell her to go back to Jamaica and/or India....
Of course Trump's own mother was an immigrant: 'Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a pebbledash croft house owned by her father since 1895 in Tong on the Isle of Lewis. Local historians and genealogists have described properties in this community at the time as "indescribably filthy" and characterized by "human wretchedness".[5][6] The outbreak of World War I weakened its economy and male population.[2]
Raised in a Scottish Gaelic-speaking household, Mary was the youngest of ten children born to Malcolm (1866–1954) and Mary MacLeod (née Smith; 1867–1963).[7] Her father was a crofter, fisherman and compulsory officer at Mary's school.[2][3][8][9] English was her second language, which she learned at the school she attended until secondary school. [...] The alien passenger list of the [ship] Transylvania lists her occupation as a domestic worker [nanny for Dracula's rats?].'
'she "started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land. [...] Though the 1940 census form filed by Mary Anne and her husband Fred Trump stated that she was a naturalized citizen, she did not actually become one until March 10, 1942. '
(Wikipedia)
I was surprised to learn that Trump's mother lied about her citizenship status on the census. Source:
https://www.thenatio...tial-candidate/
Also:
https://www.snopes.c...ther-immigrant/
By lying on the census, she committed a federal crime that possibly could have invalidated her citizenship application. Perhaps she should have been deported.
This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 17 July 2019 - 12:25 AM
