Johonny
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Thu Sep-24-09 12:42 AM
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| 41. I can't laugh enough how wrong you are. |
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"There's my argument restrict immigration"
A Groucho line about America's immigration laws against... Eastern Europeans. I mean back in FDR's time white people were racist against other white people. My grandparents went to the Irish Catholic church and not the German Catholic church in town. They certainly didn't let the Polish Catholics in. What a scandal when my mom married an Italian Catholic. OMG.
When the US entered WWI the army tested all their soldiers entering the army. It was the first real standardize testing of America. Americans as a whole performed horribly. If you think the standard education level of the average Americans is bad now, you have no idea how bad it was in the early part of last century.
Were American's jingoistic before today
"TippyCanoe and Tyler too"
"5440 or fight"
"remember the maine"
nuff said.
You are wrong.
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| -There WAS a time in the past when Americans weren't parochial racist, jingoistic, arrogant fools |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:02 PM |
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Another reason to hate FDR, I guess - He spoke French |
AspenRose |
Sep-23-09 07:04 PM |
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You have got to be kidding. Racism and bigotry were far worse |
virgogal |
Sep-23-09 07:07 PM |
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I begin to doubt that when I hear about lynched Census workers |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:08 PM |
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Then you had better brush up on your history-tolerance of others |
virgogal |
Sep-23-09 07:11 PM |
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I am quite aware of my history. |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:12 PM |
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My response was to your original post,which was comparing today |
virgogal |
Sep-23-09 07:19 PM |
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Oh, you beat me to it. The Japanese camps were pretty fucked up too. nt |
ZombieHorde |
Sep-23-09 07:08 PM |
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Wasn't segregation still prominent in Roosevelt's day? nt |
ZombieHorde |
Sep-23-09 07:08 PM |
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Until the mid 1960's actually. |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:10 PM |
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Uh, when was that? |
BlooInBloo |
Sep-23-09 07:09 PM |
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We are already at "Idiocracy" you only look at the Repugs |
MadMaddie |
Sep-23-09 07:10 PM |
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Parochial racist, jingoistic, arrogant fools have always been |
LiberalAndProud |
Sep-23-09 07:10 PM |
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You aren't |
Prophet 451 |
Sep-23-09 08:38 PM |
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The past was much, much worse |
Confusious |
Sep-23-09 11:28 PM |
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Actually, they were. It wasn't so noticeable in the segregated neighborhoods, |
Cleita |
Sep-23-09 07:11 PM |
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Yep. It was also less visible before we had all the media platforms |
EFerrari |
Sep-23-09 10:00 PM |
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Yeah, it was before the Corporate take over. Back when people were citizens, not just consumers. nt |
anonymous171 |
Sep-23-09 07:11 PM |
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Before that they were laborers |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:12 PM |
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Got a link? |
izquierdista |
Sep-23-09 07:16 PM |
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Just search for Franklin Delano Roosevelt on iTunes and then look through the recordings. |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:18 PM |
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Tell that to the Japanese Americans or African Americans of the time |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:04 PM |
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Wonderful post.... |
samplegirl |
Sep-23-09 07:20 PM |
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Depends on what layer of the population you are talking about |
nadinbrzezinski |
Sep-23-09 07:21 PM |
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Our elites haven't exactly been the best the world has to offer |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:09 PM |
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I don't think that all of these negative traits |
appamado amata padam |
Sep-23-09 07:34 PM |
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Americans? Which Americans? |
MineralMan |
Sep-23-09 07:55 PM |
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I've been saying that ever since I saw Idiocracy......we are hurling toward |
ladywnch |
Sep-23-09 08:56 PM |
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You have to understand when you are watching that movie |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:10 PM |
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sadly, I know. n/t |
ladywnch |
Sep-23-09 10:56 PM |
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too late. imo |
spanone |
Sep-23-09 09:29 PM |
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I disagree - based on much of the history I've read. |
Cerridwen |
Sep-23-09 09:36 PM |
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No we have always been assholes |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:05 PM |
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Untrue. We're better now than we were |
Prism |
Sep-23-09 10:22 PM |
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Every generation thinks that |
TxRider |
Sep-23-09 10:25 PM |
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My Grandmother still spoke a dialect of German |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 11:12 PM |
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That one week in 1972 doesn't really count |
alcibiades_mystery |
Sep-23-09 11:14 PM |
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Dig up a poem by Ebenezer Cooke called "The Sotweed Factor" |
DeltaLitProf |
Sep-23-09 11:42 PM |
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Hard for amyone not my age to understand, but even those of |
efhmc |
Sep-23-09 11:59 PM |
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It's already happened. We're there. |
Greyhound |
Sep-24-09 12:08 AM |
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I'm not really sure there was. nt |
Critters2 |
Sep-24-09 12:11 AM |
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I can't laugh enough how wrong you are. |
Johonny |
Sep-24-09 12:42 AM |
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