Muslims and Mexican immigrants (admit it, that's who all the "illegal immigrants" rhetoric is aimed at) aren't a threat to the USA. If anything, they'll make the USA greater than its ever been, just like the millions of other immigrants have come before them have.
Aside from the Native Americans, who the settlers genocided, virtually every "great" American has been either an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants. Everything you see around you in the USA was built by immigrants or their offspring. Whether they had some paperwork when they achieved what they did is beside the point.
Jewish immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Polish immigrants, Chinese immigrants, or Japanese immigrants were all widely vilified and discriminated against in the past (and some still are) and seen as threats to the country. Mexican immigrants and Muslims are just the latest target in this long and ugly history of xenophobia.
Some people somehow can't see past sensational headlines and tired anti-immigrant rhetoric recycled from the mouths of the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis through the right-wing media, whose nudge-nudge, wink-wink racism and bigotry can not conceal their hatred from anyone with a modicum of knowledge of the history of this country, or the others where their ilk have shown their face.
It's really a sad and shameful day when such KKK rhetoric is not only given a hearing in the mainstream media, but is starting to become the mainstream, to the extent of electing a President who might as well be wearing a white hood and burning a cross.
Automobile accidents in the US kill 32,000 people a year. Cancer kills about 500,000 per year. Heart disease kills over 700,000 per year.
Yet people fixate on a once in 200 year tragedy that killed 3,000 people. That many people die like clockwork just from automobile accidents every single month.
If you are concerned with saving American lives (never mind all the other lives around the world that are just as worth saving), why would you not try to prevent something that's very preventable and happens every single month, every single year, on a far larger scale, and that doesn't involve hating anyone?
You know, at first you were talking about defending the US. Now, you want to do what? Save lives in the rest of the world?
Well, ISIS is still going to have to get far in the back of the line in terms of world-wide deaths and displacements, both from war, disease, poverty, and malnutrition.
But you know what ISIS has that the rest don't have? The media as its PR team. Just like every other word out of the media's mouth during the election was "Trump", so every other word out of its mouth is "ISIS". It's no wonder some now think that ISIS must be the most important problem in the world. But it's far from even being in the running.
Aside from the Native Americans, who the settlers genocided, virtually every "great" American has been either an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants. Everything you see around you in the USA was built by immigrants or their offspring. Whether they had some paperwork when they achieved what they did is beside the point.
Jewish immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Polish immigrants, Chinese immigrants, or Japanese immigrants were all widely vilified and discriminated against in the past (and some still are) and seen as threats to the country. Mexican immigrants and Muslims are just the latest target in this long and ugly history of xenophobia.
Some people somehow can't see past sensational headlines and tired anti-immigrant rhetoric recycled from the mouths of the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis through the right-wing media, whose nudge-nudge, wink-wink racism and bigotry can not conceal their hatred from anyone with a modicum of knowledge of the history of this country, or the others where their ilk have shown their face.
It's really a sad and shameful day when such KKK rhetoric is not only given a hearing in the mainstream media, but is starting to become the mainstream, to the extent of electing a President who might as well be wearing a white hood and burning a cross.