It doesn’t do your legal immigrants any favors. They’ll be dependent on the charity of their “hosts” for everything, and nothing destroys ambition or self-esteem more completely than a few generations of that. Without language skills and a working knowledge of the societal norms they’ll never be fully functioning members of society. That policy doesn’t do the ghettoized immigrants any favors, since they’ll never be made to exert the effort necessary to achieve the success they really want. It’s the path of least resistance, but that path doesn’t go anywhere we want to be. Letting immigrants (particuarly illegal immigrants) form private city-state enclaves within your country is never a good idea. Though I vow to do it if you will.Your distinction between being part of a country and just living there is exactly right. And don’t think the thought of this thrills me either. We have to do them all and we need to do it quickly. So is donating money, being kind to a right-leaning friend or neighbor, manning a phone bank for a cause or holding your nose and trying to talk about all of this with a relative who you’ve always loathed – or a colleague who seems to have values opposite of yours. Yes, this is how they thrive and recruit people – by showing all the people like me and you who are against THEM – but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be continually confronted for their hate (and vigorously).īut if as Tina suggests, you want to stay home and instead frequent an ethnic business – e.g. Therefore, if you want to protest at a right wing, Nazi rally – do it. Unlike the multiple choice SAT there is no one correct answer here – except to rule out the dumb choice immediately. On Saturday morning, I woke up to find that two dozen Nazi white guys marched in downtown Boston but 40,000 people showed up in solidarity to counter the hate-filled rants of a crowd that had mostly dispersed by the time they had arrived.Īs a teacher whose role it often is to reach compromise I would propose that we need to incorporate not only the extremes but EVERYTHING in between. There is no ONE way to battle the lunacy that is now overtaking our nation. Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point. We should go down there and get some guys together, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them.Įven when one guy counters that there is a devastating satirical op-ed piece in the (NY) Times on the subject, Isaac counters: It is the contemporary version of the fictional Isaac Davis’ cocktail party retort in 1979’s Manhattan after he incredulously mentions that he’s heard Nazis may actually be marching in New Jersey. It is wish fulfillment and is borne out of anger, frustration and a penchant for mouthy snideness that many of us “ethnic types” prefer. It is the comedic response of 2017 so far and, as in any great satire, should not be taken as an absolute. Still, however appealing it feels to gorge oneself on sweets and carbs in response to the upside down view of the world that Donny John and his white supremacist followers espouse – it is by no means the ONLY response. Fey more aptly derides him and his cheaply made real estate.
Sheetcaking, as she called it, is one answer to the post-racial right wing racism (and all kinds of other isms) that is now sweeping our country thanks to the campaign, election and reign of our first bull-in-the-china shop Electoral College POTUS – Donald J.
#LIBERAL LUNACY GIF UPDATE#
You’ve probably seen her now viral appearance on Thursday night’s summer edition of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update – the one where she called the neo-Nazi man boys “chinless turds,” referred to Ann Coulter as “yard sale Barbie,” and countered Trump and his supporters with “who do you think drove that car into the crowd – Hillary’s emails?”– as whipped cream and all kinds of other carbs came pouring inside and outside of her mouth. It’s the only thing that’s made me laugh in quite a while. I’ve watched Tina Fey downing a sheet cake while she excoriated Trump and the white supremacists at Charlottesville EIGHT times so far – and counting.
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