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I was born and raised here in the states with a white mom and an Asian father. I work in tech and battle with sexism and racism daily. Most of the time it doesn't get to me because it shows they view me as real competition. Other times I wonder if this is a sign I should pack up and find my destiny elsewhere. Clearly most of this country thinks I should have my citizenship taken away and be deported. If you looked at me you wouldn't know I was born here, raised Catholic, and am not Hispanic. And honestly, they don't care. It's all code words anyways. It's not illegal immigration That's the problem, it's illegal immigration of Hispanics. It's not Islam that's the problem, it's the immigration of non white middle Easterners. I find it hard not to automatically think a white person, especially over the age of 20 is racist and wants me gone
Stop being so damn dramatic. NO ONE thinks you should have your citizenship taken away and be deported. You said yourself you were born here. Where do people come up with this crap?
Trump and many Americans have a problem with ILLEGAL immigration. So unless you're not a US citizen and are here illegally you have nothing to worry about.
The Jews have never had a bad reputation in this county. There are people who hate them, but its no more bigotry than anyone else receives. They actually threaten their reputation more by looking for bigotry against them that isn't there. I have said it before, and will say it again. This country does not owe Jews anything because its been nothing but good to them. I hope to keep it that way. The best way to do that is to stop the antisemitic witch hunts. Of course another good idea is to not import people who hate them because of Israel.
Not quite true. Michael Bloomberg, one of the richest men in the country, will tell you how his parents had to get a Christian lawyer to buy a house for them in Massachusetts, then he quietly sold the house to them because some in the neighborhood would not take kindly to Jews moving in. A Jewish cemetery in Saddle Brook, NJ, is vandalized regularly with grave markers toppled and swastikas painted on them. Fires are set in synagogues. My boss is Chasidic. He went to engineering school and no one would work with him on projects where they were supposed to team up or work with a partner.
The NYC law firm Skadden Arps, which built its business on corporate takeovers, grew to what it is primarily because the major Wall Street firms would not hire Jews and so they found their own niche elsewhere. Keeping a tight community has helped them somewhat, but there is still plenty of hatred and prejudice against Jews. They certainly receive much more bigotry than I do.
Not quite true. Michael Bloomberg, one of the richest men in the country, will tell you how his parents had to get a Christian lawyer to buy a house for them in Massachusetts, then he quietly sold the house to them because some in the neighborhood would not take kindly to Jews moving in. A Jewish cemetery in Saddle Brook, NJ, is vandalized regularly with grave markers toppled and swastikas painted on them. Fires are set in synagogues. My boss is Chasidic. He went to engineering school and no one would work with him on projects where they were supposed to team up or work with a partner.
The NYC law firm Skadden Arps, which built its business on corporate takeovers, grew to what it is primarily because the major Wall Street firms would not hire Jews and so they found their own niche elsewhere. Keeping a tight community has helped them somewhat, but there is still plenty of hatred and prejudice against Jews. They certainly receive much more bigotry than I do.
To be fair: those Jewish people who look and dress like average Americans don't seem to have much prejudice against their kind, at least here in Arizona in 2016. The "black hat" Jews who get mixed up with the Amish, they def have a worse rep.
To be fair: those Jewish people who look and dress like average Americans don't seem to have much prejudice against their kind, at least here in Arizona in 2016. The "black hat" Jews who get mixed up with the Amish, they def have a worse rep.
You can't tell the difference between a Hasidic Jews and the Amish ?(LOL)
To be fair: those Jewish people who look and dress like average Americans don't seem to have much prejudice against their kind, at least here in Arizona in 2016. The "black hat" Jews who get mixed up with the Amish, they def have a worse rep.
I work for them in the largest Orthodox Jewish community outside of Israel. I also have Reform Jewish friends who are more like you describe.
Part if the reason the black hats are treated with suspicion is that they separate themselves. Outsiders view their distance as rudeness or take it personally. It CAN be disconcerting and annoying to always pass people on the street who look through you as if you are invisible or let doors slam in your face when entering a store because they don't acknowledge you. Last week I bought coffee and placed the money on the counter the way you are supposed to, but the young Chasidic Jew on the other side reached too fast for the money and accidentally touched my hand--and proceeded to vigorously wipe his hand on his pants to get the goy cooties off. If I didn't understand that this is their way or have a sense of humor, I might begin to resent these strange people and their antisocial ways.
Interestingly, immediately adjacent to that 'hood is another full of Muslims from Bangladesh. The Bengalis smile and say hello or nod as you pass.
Yes, I was amused by that, too. In a scene in the movie Witness, a young Amish boy approaches a Chasidic Jew in Grand Central, thinking from behind that the man is Amish.
Clearly most of this country thinks I should have my citizenship taken away and be deported.
Clearly you've swallowed the liberal party line and probably get all your "news" from Huffington and MSNBC. You sound just like every other racist liberal and whiny millennial crying about how unfair life is.
The idea that the movie houses of any given nation would start making films to pander to a 5% minority out of a sense of social justice is naive. How many movies come out of China with Uyhghyr heroes? How many Russian films with a Kazakh ladykiller?
It's not just the action or superhero movies. The problem is that Asians are usually used as caricatures in American productions instead of real characters with flesh and bones. The same goes with African Americans. There are exceptions, but the glass ceiling is real.
how is having one clinic or NONE making abortion available to women- or girls who need them?
making them unavailable is in effect banning them (not to mention, many many of Trump supporters are vocal about eliminating them)
No woman WANTS an abortion, but its there, when necessary-
I worked with a 14 year old who had been raped for years by her BROTHER(no one believed her, and she was beaten when she told, so she stopped)- by the time we got to her, she was 4 months pregnant....
Healthcare access is a real thing, and important- denying it is damaging- and so is anti immigrant slogans and racism.
Can still get them, has nothing to do with presidency or supreme court. I am in favor of access to it but now isn't that a state issue you're trying to pin on someone that hasn't taken office yet?
oooh racism....keep drinking the koolaid, the same electorate that landslided Obama, minus 8 years of old folks dying off put him in office. If you're over the age of 30 you should be ashamed for not remembering that Hillary and her supporters (and Bill) were charged with racism in the 2008 primary REPEATEDLY. Do you roll your eyes when right wingers called Hillary a socialist or communist? You should have. But guess what...both sides dishonestly paint the other. You've been suckered on that one.
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