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RE: Stop the racist van!
July 28, 2013 at 12:29 pm
(July 28, 2013 at 12:24 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: (July 28, 2013 at 12:19 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Oh I'm not saying I know what this racist van thing is all about, who started this tweet or who is against the van, but I think if you were able to compare the amount of reaction a topic called
"Stop the van which is prejudice against people who aren't legally allowed to be within this country coming to this country because of immigration laws"
vs
"Stop the racist van"
You would find that the one that is more factually accurate would get less attention than the one that has the word "racist" in it.
Well as you see, they equate being against illegal immigration the same with racism.
Besides, I haven't made up the word "racist van". It was used by the people who are against it, and so I have seen it fit to use it as the title.
I know I wasn't talking about you I was talking about the people who made that title on twitter or wherever else it's used.
There's no reason to equate illegal immigration with racism since every race can be an illegal immigrant, every race of person can live here in this country legally, there's no logic to it whatsoever.
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RE: Stop the racist van!
July 28, 2013 at 12:52 pm
While the van itself might not be racist, it will certainly fuel racism. London racists tend to be pretty dense, and they consider anyone who's "foreign" to be an "illegal immigrant." Those people really don't need to be encouraged to believe the government is on their side.
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RE: Stop the racist van!
July 28, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Racist? Unclear. Ethnocentric? Yes. Very ethnocentric.
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RE: Stop the racist van!
July 28, 2013 at 1:01 pm
It's Xenophobic! ... or something.
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RE: Stop the racist van!
July 28, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Quote:Racist? Unclear. Ethnocentric? Yes. Very ethnocentric.
No, you can be an illegal polish immigrant and have the exact same race and culture and everything else as a legal polish immigrant, the van has nothing to do with race or ethnocentrism.
You can be an American and work for longer than your visa allows you to and be an illegal immigrant,
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RE: Stop the racist van!
July 29, 2013 at 1:24 pm
A van advising illegal immigrants to leave the country (and offering assistance to do this) is not racist.
My wife's uncle saying that the American government should station U.S. Army snipers along our border with Mexico and have them shoot anyone who tries to cross the desert (and then leaving their bodies lay where they fall) is racist.
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RE: Stop the racist van!
July 29, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Is this some sort of farce, or do they really expect illegal immigrants to text them for a ride home?
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