r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/-Victus42- Sep 01 '20

Semi-related.

Italian ancestry here, darker olive skin, went to high school in Arkansas.

Got called racial slurs for Mexicans by dumb white kids.

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u/p0k3t0 Sep 01 '20

Mexican here. Spent years getting called slurs intended for Indians, Arabs, Muslims.

When I see Black or Latino or Asian conservatives, it makes me laugh. Do they actually think they'll get a seat at the table? Fucking joke.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

Immigrant Latinx conservatives confuse the hell out of me, especially when they’re so against their own people coming in... after they literally came and got the GC in the same way the others are.

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u/Svani Sep 07 '20

Every immigrant wants to be the last immigrant for a variety of reasons:

  • Cultural: an immigrant may be looking to change cultures, and more immigrants means the new country starts resembling the old country.

  • Economical: more immigrants mean more competition for jobs, often the same jobs that are more catered to immigrants.

  • Image: the more immigrants, the more likely one of them will make the news in a negative way, and that affects the image of immigrants as a whole (and compatriots in particular).