America thrives in unity of traditional values, morals, & standards.

They’re starting to make the rats look good

9/11 caused New York to get Stockholm syndrome.

Wake up, Americans...

If you don't love America, get the hell out!

Says the guy who says his job is playing fiddle for an Irish folk band.

Didn't New Yorkers also tell the Irish to get the hell out in the 19th century?

And then some. Gangs of New York is based on what the Irish were on the receiving end of when they immigrated to lower Manhattan. The Five Points District was real.

But even worse, everybody else did as well.
We don't hear about it much nowadays, but while the revival of the ku Klux Klan turn of the century is often credited to DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation and President Wilson showing the movie in the White House, there were actually two immigrant waves at the time which also helped stir them up, both of them Catholic - one was Italian, the other, Irish.

Also not commonly heard of today, it was the pouring in of those two peoples that also had a lot to do with Prohibition, because they were known for drinking, and the Protestants here in America were worried about raging drunken Catholics ravaging their women.

A lot of MAGAs have no clue they are descendants of immigrants who were also unwanted in America. Now they treat new immigrants the same as their ancestors were treated by 19th century bigots.

Oh, they do. They hate others because they hate themselves, and they were taught to hate themselves since before they were born.

Like with the Irish you mentioned in New York, every immigrant wave that comes to New York goes through the same thing. The Irish were picked on by the English and the Germans, then the Irish picked on the Italians when they came here. Then the Italians picked on the Puerto Ricans and the Blacks that came after them. Now the Puerto Ricans pick on Dominicans and Mexicans while the Blacks pick on Koreans and Haitians. Of course they're picking on Indians and middle Easterners as well.

And that's the thing of it, they don't hate the ones who picked on them, they hate the ones who came after that are going through the same thing that their parents went through. It never made sense to me.

When my family moved to this neighborhood in the 1970s, I was picked on because my mother is from Puerto Rico. I resented the Italians for what they did, not the Dominicans. I did realize when I got older that despite a lot of talk that they do, Italians are not as bad as some other people might be. Sure, some called me names, but if we lived in an Irish neighborhood, I would have been getting beat up in the bathroom at school by half the class on a fairly regular basis.

Even when you explain to people the hypocrisy and the irony, like I have with a sibling on more than one occasion, they don't get it. We have talked about this very subjec. Prejudices wrong. Racism is wrong. Hating people just because of the ancestry is wrong. Except for Dominicans, she believes it's justified for Dominicans, they are the exception to her. When I try explaining how ridiculous that sounds, how hypocritical, nope, she said it's justified in their case. They are the exception that proves the rule.

But like I tell her and other Puerto Ricans that say the same thing, you know what the difference between a Puerto Rican and a Dominican is? A hundred miles. That's it, a distance of a hundred miles. Our cultures are more similar to each other than they are to other Hispanic cultures, except Dominicans, being from a bigger island with more people, have better variations on foods than we do. That's it. We got one or two versions of this, they got 10 of the same thing.

Humans make me laugh.

Hard to follow your scattered thought process. Maybe less rant and more focus.

Modda, do you hate America? Are you a communist? If you want to leave, no one will stop you.

So to prove you love America you have to be a bigot/racist and hate Muslims?