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| If You're Not Grateful To The United States, Why Are You Here? |
| 2019-08-15 |
| [The Federalist] Earlier this month, the Washington Post featured an op-ed entitled "I am an uppity immigrant. Don’t expect me to be ’grateful,’" by New York University professor Suketu Mehta, an author who recently published a book arguing that "immigration is a form of reparations" for past American crimes. In the article, Mehta accuses America of stealing "the futures of the people who are now arriving at its borders," of causing many immigrants "to move in the first place," and of "despoil[ing] their homelands and mak[ing] them unsafe and unlivable." He censures the West for "despoil[ing] country after country through colonialism, illegal wars, rapacious corporations and unchecked carbon emissions." Mehta asserts, for such reasons, that he’s "entitled" to live in the United States. Yet a few brief historical reflections will demonstrate that immigration as reparations is a bit more complicated than Mehta lets on. Moreover, no one, whether first-generation immigrants or direct descendants of voyagers on the Mayflower, deserves to be here. Being American is a gift for which every citizen should be inordinately grateful. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 ... and currying favor with the moguls |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-08-15 19:53 |
| #12 and calling the natives of America "Indians"! |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-08-15 18:12 |
| #11 And Bombay Gin! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-08-15 16:49 |
| #10 And the Bombay smallpox blankets |
| Posted by: Frank g 2019-08-15 16:35 |
| #9 "immigration is a form of reparations for past American crimes." The cruel U.S. occupation of India |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-08-15 14:44 |
| #8 They'll keep taking what they can until they turn American into the same kind of shit hole they came from. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-08-15 11:26 |
| #7 If You're Not Grateful To The United States, Why Are You Here? Why are any invaders here, to rape, to plunder, and to steal. Why not when you can get the local |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-08-15 07:24 |
| #6 America never stole from India. Isn't it interesting that we're never told the precise manner in which we 'stole' things from others? A bogus assertion if there ever was one. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-08-15 06:53 |
| #5 As if we needed more evidence that immigrants are a punishment for America. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-08-15 02:44 |
| #4 Suketu Mehta. Indian. America never stole from India. If anything they were responsible for quickly ending the second world war after which the brits decided to leave. Asshole. I hate these opportunistic bastards, thankless f↺ckers given residence in the west and trying to kiss ass for whomever appears to be have more influence, with clearly hypocritical rhetoric. All they want is better prospects, a promotion, or sometimes they're just addicted to invitations. Often, a modicum of false respect will earn you their eternal devotion. These people are rightly called 'presstitutes' in India. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-08-15 02:31 |
| #3 I know several LEGAL immigrants who work their arses off. A couple of the LEGAL immigrants have businesses that create jobs. I know one American born businessman whose wife is a LEGAL immigrant who is the one that makes his business work. Without her, his business would not succeed. She runs his office so well that when the IRS audited him, they gave her 5 stars. Everyone of these immigrants have one thing in common, they would fire "Mehta" in a heartbeat. |
| Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-08-15 01:55 |
| #2 Hey scheisskopf: Didn't you swear an oath of allegiance as part of your citizenship process? Were you just lying? Was it because you were desperate to escape the shithole you came from? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-08-15 01:38 |
| #1 It's really too bad there's not a "return if defective" warranty on these knuckleheads. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2019-08-15 01:34 |