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You don't just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That's not what this country is based on.
Great. Incredibly stupid thing to say, given the actions of her own ancestors. So a genealogist discovers this about Lahren’s immigrant ancestors:
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Tomi's 3x great-grandmother had been here for 41 years and still spoke German," Mendelsohn wrote. "Her 2nd great-grandmother had been here for 10 yrs. Spoke no English. Her great-grandfather's 1895 baptism from MN? Recorded in Norwegian."
Mendelsohn also shared another document that she said shows Lahren's great-great-grandfather was indicted by a grand jury for forging naturalization papers, but notes in a second tweet that he was acquitted by a trial jury.
"Spoiler alert: he was acquitted by a trial jury," Mendelsohn wrote. "But come on."
I keep telling people that most of the stories we hear about European immigration are FALSE! They took their sweet time assimilating into this country, and it often took several generations to do so.
I think Tomi is a dolt, and have no idea why anyone gives her a venue to talk, but, what does her opinion have to do with what her ancestors did? Can I criticize slavery yet have slave owning ancestors (for the record, they did not, came to the US after slavery ended)? Do them owning slaves have any bearing on my opinion about slavery?
My other thought is; how does this person know about Tomi's ancestors? Hell, I hardly even know about mine, I could not imagine someone else magically finding something so detailed like what languages they did or did not speak.
Of course though European immigrants (specifically those from the UK, Ireland, Germanic, and northern Europeans) were much more assimilated than any other immigrant group, the US derived from such groups and/or are offshoots of such groups. The US is not a large deviation from those societies back then. It is an apples and oranges comparison.
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"Tomi's 3x great-grandmother had been here for 41 years and still spoke German," Mendelsohn wrote."
So?
He says she "still spoke German" , he doesn't say she didn't know English. Plenty of immigrants do continue to speak their native language.
"Her 2nd great-grandmother had been here for 10 yrs. Spoke no English."
So?
He doesn't say she didn't know English, just that she never spoke it 'as far as he knows'.
"Her great-grandfather's 1895 baptism from MN? Recorded in Norwegian."
So?
Why not have that in a community that is probably predominantly Norwegian?
"Mendelsohn also shared another document that she said shows Lahren's great-great-grandfather was indicted by a grand jury for forging naturalization papers, but notes in a second tweet that he was acquitted by a trial jury.
"Spoiler alert: he was acquitted by a trial jury," Mendelsohn wrote. "But come on.""
He was found innocent, why is this a thing?
Immigrants that came through Ellis Island did have to pass many tests, intelligence test was one of them.
Jeb Bush's wife doesn't speak English, does that mean she's a moron? If so, why was the left saying that we should have voted for Jeb?
Hey libs, did she falsely claim native american heritage then leverage that lie to become a tenured professor at a major ivy league university? Just saying...glass houses and all that you haters.
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