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      Yes I did edit my comment lol. We do have a lot of immigrants that may come from poorer countries in search of a better life. Whats wrong with that? How do you know I’m not specifically proud of that for my country? You are the one implying Americans are less-than because of some statistic.

      When you are so militant with discussions, how will you ever come to an understanding? Why be so mean?

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        Why be so mean?

        “Calling me racist for blaming immigrants is so meaaaaaaan!!!” rage-cry

        If I didn’t want to be called racist, I would simply not say something racist.

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          If I thought it was failing of character to be illiterate then you could maybe say I was blaming immigrants. I think it’s a lot harder to uproot your life and risk it all to bring your family where the grass is greener than it is to learn your ABC’s.

          Why do you assume immigrants are brown? Because you are probably right. That’s okay.

          It’s okay to have a lower literacy rate if our country is helping people have better lives. It’s okay that discussions of immigration and nationality sometimes involve ethnicities. It just makes sense that those qualities are discussed and related.

          It’s also okay if american school systems need to improve. I promise everything will be okay.

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            Can you stop filling my inbox with nationalist bullshit? Christ, I couldn’t read past the first line. Grass is greener my ass.

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              Hope you find the help you need. Let me know if you want to talk.

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                Ableism, nice.

                When you stop emotionally reacting to people criticising your government let me know? You owe as much loyalty to governments as you owe to your boss.

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                  Not everything is political. All we have is each other and we can choose to be kind. There’s a lot of anger here and I can’t know where it’s coming from so I won’t try to assume anything about you. I just don’t appreciate you telling me I’m racist for saying America has a lot of immigration. Its not okay. You are assuming more about me than is fair.

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                    I hate to extrapolate data as an idiotic internetter but being born in the US and being illiterate could also be because

                    The thing is that so often people who have no clue about things and the real living situations of people do talk down on people who are experts about those questions or affected. Effectively a lot of what you did was muddying the water and thus implicitly justifying that there might be good or acceptable reasons.

                    You were nationalist and you were racist with that and you were also ignorant of your own history and by being that ignorant you again actively(!) marginalized the BIPoC people in the US, as well as muddied class. In your other answers you were ableist and not kind either. You could’ve been kind, but you weren’t.

                    Lol damn you don’t have to call me a racist

                    Well then don’t act like one. Don’t try to defend faults of your country, try to help the people affected by the faults. Listen to affected people and listen to experts. This is a chance to grow for you. You can be kind and you can create a welcoming place for others. To do that you would need some collective work though and maybe read How To Become an Anti-Racist (and you could also watch the liberal lecture series by Robert Reich to get more how red lining works).