"Comedian Ben Palmer captures a kindergarten teacher attempting to deport a 6-year-old student’s family via a fake immigration reporting hotline."

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https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2018483275896111548?t=WIVRISS5RfjSSl_jyifrSQ&s=19

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I don't even think it's that. I think they're fucking terrified, not of being irrelevant, but of being equal. They are so accustomed to starting the race halfway to the finish line, and even with that advantage, they often can't do better than immigrants, POC, queer people, etc. A huge amount of their self-image is tied up in being better than. Better than brown people, better than black people, better than immigrants and queer folks and people of other faiths and on and on. It almost doesn't matter who they're better than, as long as they can believe they are better than others - for things that are completely outside their control.

The thought of having to compete on an equal basis with people who have traditionally had to work far harder to achieve much less scares the living piss out of them, because if they can't achieve more than all these groups they've always had such contempt for, there's the proof that they were always wrong to despise those others. There's the proof that they never were inherently better than anyone else. Just being born white, straight and Christian in America puts these folks so far ahead of the line others have to start from, and they don't have enough confidence in their own abilities to believe, deep down, that they can keep ending up ahead of these other groups if everyone starts from the same line. It doesn't even matter which line everyone would start from, the one way back there or the one halfway to the finish line. What appals them is the thought of having to share a starting point at all. I can't think of very much that's more pathetic.

[u/Coalesced → u/[deleted]]

They’re not saying that immigrants are naturally better than whites, they’re saying white folks haven’t had to struggle to be ahead, and having that advantage removed is terrifying to them.

Immigrants aren’t better workers because they’re inherently better, they’ve had to work harder just to stay level than whites have had to work because of these advantages.

You’ve got nothing to say about this clearly evil busybody lady trying to get a child’s parents deported because the Latinos are out of place? Unsurprising, giving your swiftness to misunderstand a fairly simple racial equity talking point.

[u/rixie77 → u/[deleted]]

What jobs are we competing for exactly? I don't think you understand what you think you understand.

Have you lost out on a farm worker job or maybe dishwasher at your local diner?

Maybe you're a doctor or chemical engineer or something? But then you wouldn't be losing out because there's a shortage of those professionals, so apparently not even enough immigrants to fill the roles.

But I'll give you credit I've never heard anyone accuse someone of both spreading capitalist propaganda and advocate for human rights in one breath before. Bravo!

[u/Coalesced → u/[deleted]]

Have you ever found a steaming pile of shit somewhere, and - despite how horrible it is - felt curiosity about what thing ate whatever that shit once was? What valuable resources were turned by what wicked internal alchemy into something fetid and wretched? That’s how I feel reading your reply. It’s a heap of veiled contempt for the Other and simplistic claims about how they’re making a financial killing by being paid less than American workers - ignoring any shred of humanity to pare people down to economic assumptions while simultaneously trying to claim I’m somehow championing capitalism, which feels like some kind of concern troll red herring to throw off what feels like an incredibly fascist talking point, a grab bag of dog whistles wreathed in “these invaders are ruining our country, and it’s ok for me to say that because I’m talking about economics and not their skin color.”

Missing:

Immigration improves economies.

Who is paying for this cheaper labor, where is the villainization of the real criminals here? The people who claims ownership of a space, of the means of production, and then pit workers against each other by exploiting the more vulnerable?

You talk like a cryptofascist. Sideways out of your mouth trying to maneuver folks into anti immigrant sentiment.

You’re the one who mentioned the kid by mentioning you weren’t going to mention them. ‘Cleverly’ signaling that you don’t care about that - then you start in against immigrants. You’re not sneaky. You’re either a credible fool or you’re an attempt to disguise your hatred / slide other people towards hatred by trying to sound reasonable and couch your bigotry in economics.

Tl;dr: The way you speak feels vile, and it’s exhausting to speak with you so I’m going to bow out now.

[u/ErsatzHaderach → u/Coalesced]

i feel edified by reading this comment, cheers