Meet Some Scared Ignorant Americans - The Language of Racism
That these people stop only before using racist epithets, is evidence that grace in America hangs only by a thread. Perhaps it is thanks to the relatively recent memory of Hitler and Jim Crow that there remains some semblance of civility in our public discourse.
But even the casual listener can hear the language of racism and hate in the video below. Like Chris Buttars, these Americans do nott apologize for BEING racist, they apologize only for ANNOUNCING it through their rhetoric.
Can you identify the coded racist language?
March 6th, 2008 at 9:08 am
After watching that, I’d like to take that young caucasian racist with the goatee and take him to the wood shed. You have to admit, that racists are getting better at packaging their b.s. “Law and order”, “rule of law”, “english only”, “invasion by hoards”, you name it, this isn’t about rule of law, this is about a xenophobic fear of a loss of primacy of northern european, protestant culture and religion in our Republic. If these were Danish protestants fleeing economic or political disruption, we would have a very sympathetic public. But dark and loathsome Mexicans? Not really.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am
It would every single one of the idiots in the video to get out of Utah once in a while. I might further suggest that they consider taking a college course or two. Oh, and to the chocolate starfish with the goatee, we did indeed invite the illegals here - wake up and smell the roses, moron!
March 6th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I couldn’t stand to view the whole vid. It’s so disgusting and there’s little real difference between these “law and order/rule of law” folks and the whites in the old South that said “the law says these poeple can’t sit at these stools in these stores” or “it’s against the law for these little colored folks to sit at the front of the bus”….
Oh, yes… we would love them (the outsiders/uninvited, to have “what we have” but… but it’s against the law. You can only take “compassion” so far, ya’ know!
The Nazi party is alive and well across the USA and here in Utah too. “Compassion? What compassion? We don’t have no compassion! We don’ need no compassion!! We don’ need no steenkin’ compassion!!!”
March 6th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Well Cliff, they stop, your epithets come easily, and are in print. Your own generalized comments on “white trash” and such may play to your audience, but they still make you a racist.
Whoever “invited” illegals here did so in contravention of Federal immigration law. No one asked the People, it was a business decision, and an illegal one at that. Soon enough the States will solve this problem and the discussion will be moot. What happens now is justifying past illegal business behavior by painting up opponents with the racism brush. A tired old brush, that doesn’t paint.
Push the straw man…is this the best you can do?
Obi, you have lost the force. Your imagination on the favoritism of immigration and refugee policy is pure fantasy. Having lived through immigration process, if anything it is skewed in favor of southerm Latinos coming to this country breaking the immigration laws, and suffering few if any consequences.
It all sounds “liberal” what you all are saying, but from experience, I can say that what you speak is patent bullshit.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Glenn:
Hate to disagree, bud, but we ALL invited the illegals into this country.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I’ve lost the farce. Darn it, I wonder where I put it? I’m not talking government policy, I’m talking about public perception. The animosity is as much cultural as it is about laws and regulations. That is my point. You may not believe it, but I have talked with those who have strong opinions on the illegal alien issue and pretended to be one of them. It doesn’t take long to find out that this has more to do with race and xenophobia than it has to do with law and order.
BTW, white supremacists are well aware of how powerful this issue is in gaining recruits. They know what is behind this issue and they are exploiting it even as I write this.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Don’t speak for me Albert o, my family and myself have always complied to US immigration law, despite it often causing hardship.
The only reason you believe “we all” “invited illegal aliens in, is that you live in the scofflaw West, and the scofflaw no load state of Utah. To any person not from Utah, it is obvious that the place evolves in its own vacuum.
Is this fallacy you cling on, the “invitation” , to assume that people that pursued legal immigration are just idiots for expecting the law to be applied equally to all persons? If they were invited, they wouldn’t have a problem…would they?
The hand writing is on the wall. whatever your “beliefs” of how this situation came to be, this is where it is headed. In the below situations any of us would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I know, you consider the law unpopular. Illegal alien activity presumes pre-medititation, the essence of higher degrees of crime. It is no surprise to me anyway, that 30% of the felons sitting in Federal prisons, are illegal aliens.
It is nice to be liberal, and dream in some fantastic moral superiority over others, that view your positions with skepticism. Check out the immigration policies of nations considered to be liberal socialist paradises, you will find, they are in no way as lenient as our own. In Canada for example, you cannot apply for residence without a full medical check, including all immunizations. If you can’t prove it, you must have them again. You pay. You are operating from a platform of complete unreality.
Judges Getting The Message
About Illegal Aliens
By Phyllis Schlafly
3-6-8
Four children including two brothers were killed, and 12 others were hospitalized with injuries, in Minnesota last week when a van reportedly ignored a stop sign and barreled into a school bus. The driver of the van, who did not speak English or have a valid driver’s license, was charged with homicide.
Authorities described the driver as an illegal alien using a phony name. She had pled guilty in 2006 for driving without a license.
For years, courts and lawyers have intimidated towns from protecting themselves against the invasion of illegal aliens. In 2006, Escondido, California backed away from its housing ordinance to curtail leases to illegal aliens and even agreed to pay $90,000 in legal fees to plaintiffs challenging the law.
Last summer, a federal court slapped down an attempt by Hazleton, Pennsylvania to penalize employers and landlords who hire and lease to illegal aliens. Hazleton had been hit by an influx of illegal aliens and victimized by some of their shocking crimes.
But in August, Newark, New Jersey, no stranger to violence, was shaken by the brutal murder of several college-bound teenagers who were harmlessly enjoying music at a playground. The victims were black, and the perpetrator was an illegal alien from Peru who had been previously charged with raping a five-year-old girl but released despite his obvious illegal presence in this country.
Another imported crime is driving too fast the wrong way on highways, with the headlights turned off, in order to escape detection while smuggling drugs or people. Several deadly crashes resulting from this practice have been reported.
The American people’s outrage at law violations by illegal aliens was heard loud and clear by the Senate when it defeated the amnesty bill last year. Now, even judges may be getting the message.
In December 2007, a federal judge in Oklahoma upheld an Oklahoma law requiring state contractors to determine and verify the immigration status of new hires. Judge James H. Payne threw out a legal challenge to the law.
Less than two months later, in January 2008, federal Judge E. Richard Webber emphatically ruled against illegal aliens who had sued to overturn a similar ordinance enacted by Valley Park, Missouri, a town near St. Louis. The court upheld the ordinance, which was directed at employers who were hiring illegal aliens.
The third strike against illegal aliens came in February when federal Judge Neil V. Wake rejected each and every argument challenging a new Arizona law that imposes penalties on businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens. He dismissed the claim that federal law somehow ties the hands of state and local governments seeking to protect their own citizens.
These three decisions in three different parts of the country included both Republican and Democratic-appointed judges. In the term loved by the mainstream media, there is now bipartisan judicial support for state and local legislation against illegal aliens.
Law Professor Kris Kobach says these decisions give “a green light to other communities” seeking to pass similar ordinances.
The mayor of Hazleton, Lou Barletta, vigorously supported his city’s ordinance cracking down on illegal aliens. Despite being vilified by liberal Pennsylvania newspapers, he won nearly 95 percent of the vote in his Republican primary for reelection last year.
But that wasn’t all! In the same election, he also won the Democratic nomination on a write-in vote, defeating the leading candidate in the Democratic primary by a stunning 2-to-1 margin.
In the Arizona case, the court noted the research of Harvard economist George Borjas, who concluded that hiring illegal aliens depresses wages for legal workers because the illegals accept lower pay without benefits. Those hardest hit are uneducated legal workers, who lost $1.4 billion in 2006 in the form of lower wages in Arizona alone.
The nine months between now and the November election give states, cities and towns ample time to do what Congress has failed to do: protect us against the lawless entry of illegal aliens. That means penalizing employers who hire illegal aliens and landlords who lease to them.
It is long overdue for our public officials to rid the U.S. of imported crimes and to stand up for our legal workers, especially the poorly educated ones who need an entry-level job to start building their lives. Now that we have a green light from the courts, states and cities should proceed full steam ahead to protect us from illegal aliens.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Obi, we will deal with any elements of illegal behavior based upon some imagined racial supremicists when we come upon them and can convict them of crimes. We are more able to do so as most are citizens.
The point being, the laws, when applied, work for everyone. People are within their rights to protest law breaking conducted by illegal aliens or anyone, within the extent of the law.
I guess it would be about time for you to find these people, accuse them of crimes, and have them prosecuted. Good luck. Anyone that hired an illegal alien and paid them substandard wages, used them as wage slaves, is in fact a de-facto hate criminal, not only in thought…but in DEED.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Don’t speak for me Albert o, my family and myself have always complied to US immigration law, despite it often causing hardship.
The only reason you believe “we all†“invited illegal aliens in, is that you live in the scofflaw West, and the scofflaw no load state of Utah. To any person not from Utah, it is obvious that the place evolves in its own vacuum.
Is this fallacy you cling on, the “invitation†, to assume that people that pursued legal immigration are just idiots for expecting the law to be applied equally to all persons? If they were invited, they wouldn’t have a problem…would they?
The hand writing is on the wall. whatever your “beliefs†of how this situation came to be, this is where it is headed. In the below situations any of us would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I know, you consider the law unpopular. Illegal alien activity presumes pre-medititation, the essence of higher degrees of crime. It is no surprise to me anyway, that 30% of the felons sitting in Federal prisons, are illegal aliens.
It is nice to be liberal, and dream in some fantastic moral superiority over others, that view your positions with skepticism. Check out the immigration policies of nations considered to be liberal socialist paradises, you will find, they are in no way as lenient as our own. In Canada for example, you cannot apply for residence without a full medical check, including all immunizations. If you can’t prove it, you must have them again. You pay. You are operating from a platform of complete unreality.
March 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Don’t speak for me Albert o, my family and I, have
always complied to US immigration law, despite it
often causing hardship.
The only reason you believe “we all†“invited illegal
aliens in, is that you live in the scofflaw West, and
the scofflaw no load state of Utah. To any person not
from Utah, it is obvious that the place evolves in its
own vacuum.
Is this fallacy you cling on, the “invitation†, to
assume that people that pursued legal immigration are
just idiots for expecting the law to be applied
equally to all persons? If they were invited, they
wouldn’t have a problem…would they?
The hand writing is on the wall. whatever your
“beliefs†of how this situation came to be, this is
where it is headed. In the below situations any of us
would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I
know, you consider the law unpopular. Illegal alien
activity presumes pre-medititation, the essence of
higher degrees of crime. It is no surprise to me
anyway, that 30% of the felons sitting in Federal
prisons, are illegal aliens.
It is nice to be liberal, and dream in some fantastic
moral superiority over others, that view your
positions with skepticism. Check out the immigration
policies of nations considered to be liberal socialist
paradises, you will find, they are in no way as
lenient as our own. In Canada for example, you cannot
apply for residence without a full medical check,
including all immunizations. If you can’t prove it,
you must have them again. You get to pay. You are operating
from a platform of complete unreality.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Here’s an interesting local debate between Eli Cawley of the Utah Minuteman Project and J. Michael Clara from the Utah Latino/Hispanic Legislative Task Force that was on KRCL’s great “Radioactive” program this week.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
[...] Hat tip: Cliff Lyon at One Utah [...]
March 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
The “Foreign Invasion” dude is actually the leader of an anti-immigrant organization called Help Save Virginia. There were two citizens who answered “Foreign Invasion” dude quite effectively, including the very next person to speak:
A few hours later…
March 28th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Trying again to embed videos mentioned above:
March 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
One last try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlh3h2HFGeo
And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzMOcjITvI