(March 15, 2021 at 2:11 pm)outtathereligioncloset Wrote: Sheesh people, come on. All Brian is doing is simply expressing (clearly warranted) admiration for his hard-working, skilled, immigrant neighbors. You know, the same type of neighbors that that Trump called drug dealers, thieves and rapists.
The way immigrants from pretty much anywhere are treated in the US is a disgrace. I have an in-law who is of Asian descent who has lived in the US for 30+ years. Speaks English better than many, many American born people. But, you know, the kind whose eyes above the mask can result in some moronic Trumpite bigots to threaten her and spit on her assuming she's personally responsible for Covid. Why? Because the Dump that was Trump incited that kind of utter crap by calling Covid the "Kung-Flu" and "China Virus." He may have been dumped as president but his legacy of hatred proudly lives on. P.S. On top of everything else, she isn't even Chinese, but all these bigots see is slanted eyes.
Just read the last lines of the OP: "Point being, I really do get pissed at assholes who shit on migrants."
Cause that IS the point of the post.
I’m not arguing his point, I’m not getting the whole driveway connection. And I’m pretty sure his neighbours aren’t ‘migrants’.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
