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View Poll Results: Does it irritate you when people call you/others "anti immigrant"?
Not at all 17 32.69%
Somewhat 4 7.69%
Yes 31 59.62%
Voters: 52. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-02-2008, 04:21 PM
 
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xenophobia....would someone spell that out the way it's pronounced?
"Zee no phobia".....
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Old 06-02-2008, 04:32 PM
 
Location: South Bay Native
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"Zee no phobia".....
It's funny to see it spelled out like that - makes me think of close relatives "speak no phobia", and "hear no phobia".

And it is a bit irritating that someone calls me anti-immigrant, when I am really pro-enforcement. However, one need look no further than the source to see if it is worth getting your feathers ruffled.
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Old 06-02-2008, 05:22 PM
 
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It's funny to see it spelled out like that - makes me think of close relatives "speak no phobia", and "hear no phobia".

And it is a bit irritating that someone calls me anti-immigrant, when I am really pro-enforcement. However, one need look no further than the source to see if it is worth getting your feathers ruffled.
Most current "phobias" are pretty much tainted by 'PC'...if "phobia" truly means an irrational fear, then where does a RATIONAL fear come in? And being disgusted, disillusioned, and 'fed up' with something, in MY estimation, doesn't necessarily equate with having a 'phobia' toward it....but, of course, no one asks me for my input. They seem to have a 'phobia' toward opinions like mine...
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Old 06-02-2008, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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It's funny to see it spelled out like that - makes me think of close relatives "speak no phobia", and "hear no phobia".

And it is a bit irritating that someone calls me anti-immigrant, when I am really pro-enforcement. However, one need look no further than the source to see if it is worth getting your feathers ruffled.
And 'do no phobia'?
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Old 06-02-2008, 06:26 PM
 
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Why would it bother you if someone calls you something you are not?
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Old 06-02-2008, 06:29 PM
 
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Why would it bother you if someone calls you something you are not?
You mean like if someone called me "compassionate, well-spoken, fair-minded, and reasonable"? It might bother YOU, but I'd take no offense at all....I'd say that was their opinion.
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Old 06-02-2008, 09:33 PM
 
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I love it when someone calls me anti-immigrant considering my wife is an immigrant.

But then after they find that out, they go and call me a racist because my wife is white, non-hispanic.
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Old 06-02-2008, 09:48 PM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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I love it when someone calls me anti-immigrant considering my wife is an immigrant.

But then after they find that out, they go and call me a racist because my wife is white, non-hispanic.
People have tried that crap with me as well......my father is a legal immigrant from Europe------with a Hispanic sounding surname.

The cold reality is many if not most of our pro illegal immigrant 'Hispanics' are actually at least part American Indian (Aztec, Yaqui, etc) but do not like to admit to it due the the White supremacy within their culture.
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Old 06-03-2008, 12:10 AM
 
Location: OC, CA
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We need to bring the pharmacists out of the shadows, and welcome them in society, tax them for their services, and treat them like human beings.

BTW, pharmacists is a nice way of saying Drug Dealer.

Lets not stop with illegal aliens, we can skew all things.
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Old 06-03-2008, 01:09 AM
 
Location: California
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People have tried that crap with me as well......my father is a legal immigrant from Europe------with a Hispanic sounding surname.

The cold reality is many if not most of our pro illegal immigrant 'Hispanics' are actually at least part American Indian (Aztec, Yaqui, etc) but do not like to admit to it due the the White supremacy within their culture.
What are you talking about?

You guys have beef with Chicanos claiming to be indigenous to the continent, then you say our culture is a white supremacist one?

You mock us for saying "brown pride", then say we are basically offshoot Europeans, and call us white supremacists?

Make up your mind.

I have ran into very very very very few Mexican-Americans who tried to say they were "Spanish". This usually causes other Mexican-Americans to snicker behind their back.

Most Mexican-Americans are so proud of indigenous culture, that they like to claim to be descendants of the Aztec and Maya, when many of us are most likely of some other Amerindian tribe.

Im sure white supremacists exist in Mexico, but those are usually the descendants of the Spanish Colonists..a very small number that have not heavily mixed with Amerindian blood.

To say our culture is "heavily white supremacists" is FALSE. You assume this because the elite in Mexico are of mostly European descent(very few countries in the world where the elite hasnt been mostly European at some point), and by the depiction of beauty in the Mexican media. The whole world has been brainwashed to see White as the picture of beauty. Mexico isn't any different.
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