You don’t know what xenophobic means, do you?
What, like records from Ellis Island?
I’m aware of the dictionary definition.
Ellis Island, you say?
So you’re telling me they just showed up, without permission, and demanded to be let in?
sure, sure…
In 1907, no passports or visas were needed to enter the United States through Ellis Island. In fact, no papers were required at all.
“Pull up the ladder gents! I’m on board now!”
Asshole.
…demanded? No, they didn’t demand to be let in.
The important thing is that we’re acknowledging that your ancestors were dirty filthy illegal immigrants who invaded our country without permission.
So — no law was broken by those immigrants? And a law is being broken by yet other immigrants? Seems like a relevant difference.
Why don’t you go back to wherever the fuck you came from? Take your paperless ancestors with you.
Seems like shitty new laws were put in place by xenophobic assholes like you to prevent “others” from entering the same way you ancestors did.
Now fuck off.
…illegal? No, that’s not acknowledged. To the best of my knowledge, what they did was legal. That’s, like, the opposite of illegal.
So why did you reply to @Left_Hand_of_Dorkness like that? Only one that is not aware of what Xenophobic means would ignore that he was not referring to race there, but to the ignorant fear of foreigners.
… wanker.
Again; who gave your dirty filthy illegal ancestors permission to come to Ellis Island?
I don’t follow. Laws have been put in place to prevent others from doing all sorts of things that used to be legal, and we don’t now advocate scrapping those laws just because someone’s ancestor did it when it was legal; it used to be legal to discriminate against women, to own slaves, to do any number of things — and the fact that someone’s ancestors legally did that stuff then doesn’t mean we should let other people do it now; it’s simply and only irrelevant.
I replied that way because he said “you’re a stain on our nation, the sort of jackbooted racist shitwad”.
Again, to the best of my knowledge, they committed no illegal acts. It’s odd that you keep insisting otherwise; you keep making obviously incorrect statements.
Showing up and requesting asylum is not illegal. Do you wish it was?
I don’t believe I wish it were, no.
You’ve indicated that you presume all “illegal immigrants” to be guilty.
I’m merely applying the same standard to your ancestors.
Also, I’ll note that you do not object to their being described as dirty and filthy.
I’m surprised nobody has yet jumped on this phrasing. I mean everyone knows what the next three words that follow this are and where it comes from, right?
So ‘illegals’ are the enemy of the United States and aiding and comforting them is treason, da comrade?