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this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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it's pretty obvious some people are just incapable to join the dots, even in simplest cases. what's sad it's that their voice counts as much as those who are capable. I don't have a solution to that so i stop talking now
Well, if 54% of the population can’t read at a grade 6 level, that may indicate a good place to start.
we have to educate. we have to fill the missing gaps that our broken system leaves intentionally in place
These people do not want it and won't allow it. Leftsplaining to them will just radicalize them further right because they'll think that if you know so much and they so little, that must mean they're inferior to you and that's an unpleasant thought for them.
i don't mean to them. i mean to the kids.
You need to win elections if you want to set school curriculums
and i'm saying right now we gotta be giving the kids something to latch onto as the dark age hits
INdOcTrInAtIoN
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Sometimes horrible things happen to people who least deserve it, but these people literally voted for what is happening
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I don't get it, the article calls her a Mexican woman, but also says that she voted for Trump. Wouldn't voting in a US federal election mean she's has to be a US American woman?
It's called racism. In America when you're not white the question of where you come from becomes. "no but really where are you from?" as in "what is your ancestry?"
This is important to Americans because they use race as a baseline for how to treat you.
This is why the lady in question is Mexican to Americans before being an American.
Just like how terms like asian american came into existence. Not fully accepted as american, not fully accepted as asian.
America is both a melting pot of cultures and also one of the most racist places to exist
It's more of a salad than a melting pot.
In America, that's also a question white people get. Melting pot with several historically recent waves of mass migration tends to keep those questions alive.
Yep, it's funny about the levels of "whiteness" you can be.
I'm not white and when I told this to some Ethiopian & Somalian school friends growing up they told me "well, you're not black".
What I meant to say is: White people don't treat me as though I'm white. Which is really the important detail.
It's also very interesting to have people try to decode my race/origin. Some people have guessed middle eastern, french?, Italian, First Nations.
This is why I said I've noticed that some people put a lot of emphasis on your race (so they ask you) and it is important to then for how they perceive you.
You can be an American citizen who was born elsewhere...
Sure but by naturalising she would become a US American woman originally from Mexico. Unless you're allowed to retain original citizenship in which case she'd be a dual citizen of both. But just calling her a Mexican woman living in the USA does not make sense.
Because unless you're the right kind of white you'll never just be an "American", you'll always be a "something-American", but you don't have to come from the US to be an American, you just have be white and not have an accent.
You were born from Danish parents born in Denmark and have lived your whole life in the US so you don't have an accent? You're an American. You're a black dude whose ancestors were brought to the US by force 500 years ago and your family hasn't set foot outside the country since then? You're an African-American.
I guess her family was all trende hamasibantifa.
That sounds super real and super dangerous!!!
Good.
Hopefully she gets it into her thick head that this was the plan
Those tears taste sweet to me!!
Enjoy!