• JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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    4 months ago

    “Idaho senator born in another state tells Native American congressional candidate from a tribe native to the state to “go back where you came from.”

    It would have been a much wordier headline but relays a lot more pertinent information.

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        4 months ago

        An ideology of “I won’t listen to you because I’m motivated to oppress everyone else for my own gain,” is, most definitely, going to make the world worse. And this will be entirely on purpose, and no one will apologise.

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          i agree with you; however thinking of your adversaries as simplistic evil masks any intelligence there might be in their actions. i think it’s better to believe that they think they’re doing the right things; simply misinformed by either the people who are supposed to educate them or through willful ignorance. that way, you can better understand their human driven actions and why they took the action they made.

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      4 months ago

      Idaho State Sen. Dan Foreman, a conservative Republican

      Said this to

      Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democrat running for a House seat

      Always use names. The veil of “a politician said” or “big company does” is too blinding. Name and shame.

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        It isn’t, but to be fair, it absolutely does add an additional layer of irony that they weren’t even born there.

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        4 months ago

        “where you come from doesn’t matter” says someguy3 in defense of a racist colonist telling someone to go back where they came from while actively living on their land.

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        The point is the hypocrisy. Telling someone to go back where they came from in a place where you aren’t from either is hypocritical as fuck.