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In reply to the discussion: Democratic firebrand Jennifer Welch just delivered the MOST DAMNING indictment of MAGA culture that you'll ever hear! [View all]FakeNoose
(42,909 posts)I get her point ... she's saying that immigrants have been making great contributions in this country for the last 250 years.
But if every "white MAGA" were to stop spending money in ways that benefit immigrants ... for example if they were suddenly boycott the Mexican restaurants ... how does that help the immigrants? It doesn't - it hurts them, badly.
We all have a favorite "Italian" restaurant, but there was a time when the Italians who came here weren't considered "white" people. Every wave of poor immigrants that came here in the 1800's and early 1900's sparked fear - including the Irish, the Germans, the Swedish, the Chinese, etc. - because white Americans didn't want to lose the power they had to the new groups that came in.
The anger needs to be directed not at the immigrants but at ICE and Dept. of Homeland Security because they are the ones who are overstepping. The MAGAs are just stupid Americans who are too easily influenced to be a concern. ICE is a concern and needs to be stopped.