# White colonials should consider how their whining about immigration looks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 25, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-colonials-should-consider-how-their-whining-about-immigration-looks/826667 "2018-12-25T04:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-colonials-should-consider-how-their-whining-about-immigration-looks/826667/37 "2018-12-27T06:06:39Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The great thing about this issue is that it’s one of the few that bring together the Left and the Right. > > Liberals welcome a flood of immigrants from poorer countries under the impression that they’ll permanently swell the ranks of the Democratic Party. Conservatives (in particular, those allied with corporate interests) love the idea of a continual source of cheap, exploitable non-union labor. > > And the well off on both sides adore having a steady supply of cheap nannies, gardeners and other workers for their personal use. > > It’s just those durn American and European underclasses who think their wages and job opportunities are being depressed by illegal immigration but who are actually racists and colonials, all of 'em. Dude, you give the patchouli-smelling liberals too much credit. This’ll surprise you (and probably most white conservatives) but white liberals are not Machiavellian in their approach to politics. Not even a little bit. In fact, white liberals (especially their white leadership) are spineless traditionalists that prefer slow, incremental change. I’d love to see a cite of white liberal leadership (NanChuck or NanReid) stating that immigrants will “swell the ranks of the Democratic Party”. That logic collapses when you think significant portions of Hispanic/Latino immigrants (e.g. Cubanos) who vote Republican and identify as fiscal and/or social conservative. But, I digress. The inability for the white liberal to abandon the white conservative coupled with his or her belief that the conservatives can be “saved” (i.e. tricked, convinced, or cajoled into being more tolerant), makes the white liberal useless. The white liberal insists on clinging onto the fantasy that white conservatives can be “saved”. This sets up an interesting paradigm where white liberals care more about what white conservatives think about a policy than people of color think about a policy. This contributes to the cycle of dissatisfaction and frustration that people of color feel for white liberal leadership. Real talk. If cowardly white liberals wanted power, white liberals would have been obstructing every bill until Trump resigned or capitulated, Merrick Garland would’ve been strong-armed through, there would be plans for repeating votes for Puerto Rico, Guam, and DC Statehood, set up a secret law society that promulgates a narrow view of the Constitution and then appoint members of said society as SCOTUS judges, engage in gerrymandering (thank God for Maryland for showing these thots how to fight fire with fire). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-colonials-should-consider-how-their-whining-about-immigration-looks/826667)._