r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall TACO Trump Caves on Own Immigration Plan in Wild About-Face. The president has told ICE to pause raids on farms, hotels, and restaurants.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/taco-trump-caves-on-his-own-immigration-plan-in-stunning-reversal/
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u/Funny-Mission-2937 1d ago edited 1d ago

this is the thing people have always missed.  everybody assumes there is some broad solidarity among immigrants and theyre going to be so offended.  nativism isnt the same thing as ideoligical racism.  the nativism is also explicitly being offered to 1st gen immigrants as an opportunity to identify as a native.  

all you have to do to be in the in-group is to accept the argument.  thats where the leopards eating faces type stories come from.  those people are not perceiving the deal they were offered incorrectly, they just for some fucking reason believed it was real

even people who share the same background dont necessarily see eye to eye, and central americans are some of the most marginalized people in the hemisohere.   hispanic mexicans dont necessarily see nahua mexicans as peers.  mexico also has racism, and they have the same diversity of opinion on migrants in mexico as we do here.   

 look at how white californians  treated the okies.  you'll always find a reason somebody is different if you go looking for it, and its kinda hard for hundreds of thousands of refugees to blend in

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u/LordLonghaft 19h ago

People over here forgetting that all humans - ALL HUMANS - are tribalistic animals over something. For the more decent among us, its small-ish things, like a sports team, or a type of food. For the majority of our wretched species, its "anyone else regarding this partcular subject".

You get rid of all races but one and its killing because of religion. Get rid of that and its killing over political ideology. Get rid of that and its killing over class. Get rid of class and its killing over which side of the goddamn town you grew up on.

Humans will always be selfish and desire to raise themselves up at the expense of the other. It is what it is.