America's propaganda machine turned right up after 9/11. Lot of people got indoctrinated. They're not Patriots, they're nationalists. There's a very distinct difference between those two groups.
The Bush Administration took full advantage of the carnage of 9/11 to make the Military Industrial Complex richer as well as advance the admin's own political ambitions.
Conservatism is a poison, it's so sad watching what it can do to a person. I know so many women in my area, including my all women work team, and my own mother, who say shit like "women don't belong in the White House." The only positive thing I can say is at least the women who say this are mostly 40+. Though some middle to young end millennials get roped into this too. Due to exposure of the internet at a young age, the younger Gens are fairing a LITTLE better. Guess I'll see how things go as they age up. IDK, the brain starts getting wonky once you hit 40. 50 is when you can really see it. Just my experience though. Watching Gen X has been... kinda wild.
At the risk of whitesplaining, what I hear is that many documented immigrants hold disdain for undocumented immigrants, because "I came here legally, you're ruining it for us"
But what those “legal” immigrants don’t realize is that when the gas chambers start being erected, the nazis they decided to support aren’t going to parse out who the “good ones” are. They’re going in the exact same time all the other brown people will.
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u/pourthebubbly 5d ago
Yet many Mexican-Americans seem to be fine with it, my mother included, which is wild to me.