Resemble an immigrant? Careful what you say to a MAGA!
Feb 14, 2024 9:40:17 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Feb 14, 2024 9:40:17 GMT -5
Resemble an immigrant? Careful what you say to a MAGA!
First, the letters MAGA mean Make America Great Again. Seems innocent enough, doesn't it? Unfortunately, there is far more involved and it is un-American and negative. Why? Well the reason is very simple. It's because the POTUS who popularized this slogan has repeatedly attributed the problems that the Unites States is facing to the influx of illegal immigrants.
So in order to make America Great again, all that is needed is to remove these immigrants, and Voila! America will be great again. Of course his followers have absolutely no qualms with this conclusion, since they have been anti-immigrants all their lives. So to them, his rhetoric is merely a license to express what they have been wanting to openly express all along.
Of course this doesn't just affect illegal immigrants. It affects all those who have been born here or have been here all their lives and who are now suddenly being considered fair game and are constantly coming under attack at schools places of employment, government offices, etc. Usually such immigrants look either from the Middle East or else what is deemed as typically Latino, such as Mestizo.
So if a USA citizen physically resembles the vast majority of illegals, MAGAS will tend to classify the individual as worthy of persecution via all types of disrespect. Ironically, such persons might have been in the USA for decades, or even an entire lifetime. But that will not make any difference when a MAGA spots him. Off goes the alarm and anything that the tagged person says will be misconstrued or twisted in some devious way to justify the barrage of insults that will follow.
For example, I, who am readily identified as Latino, once said that the tomatoes at a farmer's market were not as ripe as they seemed to be, and the Anglo American I was speaking to immediately latched on to that statement as if I were an ungrateful immigrant criticizing his beloved country and started angrily declaring that the tomatoes from Mexico are much worse.
Now, I am not Mexican, and am totally unfamiliar with the quality of their produce. So I had absolutely no reference point with which to visualize Mexican tomatoes. However, I was made to feel uncomfortable. As if I had just spoken to someone about a country that I did not consider my own even though I have been in the USA all my life. It seemed that in his frenzied MAGA mind, I had just finished swimming illegally across the Rio Grande.
Another time, at a post office , while waiting in line, I casually mentioned that delivery of my mail had been delayed. Immediately, this elderly Anglo American dude exploded out of nowhere declaring that the united States postal service is the best there is, and that other countries are far worse, and furthermore, how dare I criticize HIS country. Of course I know absolutely nothing about what he is referring to since I have only lived in the USA. But unfortunately, in his peanut-sized fanatical brain, he imagined me as totally familiar with foreign country postal services, comparing them with the USA postal service in terms of efficiency, and rudely and maliciously declaring them superior.
Yet another time, this MAGA bus driver, a young Anglo American female, suddenly stopped the bus in the middle of the road, just because I asked her a simple question about her next stop.
"You are supposed to know!" she angrily declared. That delay was approx. ten minutes long while she disgorged her fanatical MAGA prejudice against a person whom she considered a foreigner in HER country.
Now, just recently, I mentioned that I was unable to catch a cab because all the cab companies said most of their cab drivers had taken the day off because of rain causing me to miss my hospital appointment. Please note that when I commented, I forgot that I was speaking to an Anglo American who was silently perceiving me as a foreigner, and the pernicious cause of all his country's problems.
But can you blame me? After all, how can a person who has been in a country for eighty years not feel like a legitimate citizen? Well, my casual statement made me, the supposed foreigner, his enemy, and he has been glaring angrily at me at the store ever since.
Then there was this elderly Anglo American MAGA woman who had been waiting beside the long line of people at the social security office. I apologized for having accidentally stepped beyond her location while in line, and suddenly, all hell broke lose.
You see, as a MAGA, she saw her opportunity and grabbed it by threatening me with violence at the hands of this male African American dude whom she had been conversing with, and who seemed to feel that I deserved her disrespect.
"You take my place in line and he is capable of taking care of you!" she belligerently declared, as he smiled confidently.
In response, I calmly I gestured in his direction with my umbrella informing her that I was not as easy to overpower as she was imagining, and he gradually backed out of the scene.
Yet she persisted and began referring to me as "These people!" It was just after Trump had visited Puerto Rico and had arrogantly and callously delivered his insults, and she wholeheartedly shared his sentiments.
Accused island Puerto Ricans, who supposedly included me, as not doing enough to help themselves during the hurricane, as she anxiously gazed around at others in line as if requesting that they join in her frenetic tirade. Luckily for me, she found no support. Probably because they were not MAGAS, and rightfully considered her behavior as uncivilized.
Now, this identical aggressive behavior was not restricted to the mundane. No siree Bob. Religious membership proved to be no barrier. You see, it was repeated by a MAGA at the steps of a synagogue, where this Germanic looking Jew appeared ready to physically attack in order to keep me out. It occurred at a Catholic church, where this MAGA falsely accused me of using the restroom to masturbate after I briefly went there to urinate. Then it occurred at a Quaker meeting place, where this supposedly inspired Anglo American Quaker MAGA, began calmly describing me as attending their meeting without knowing why, and as being a member of a marginalized group.
Curiously, all this garbage was triggered by my mere presence which they felt indicated illegal alien.
Conclusion? It's unwise to assume that people are perceiving you as a citizen of the United states if you can be identified as Latino or from the middle East. So it is best assume that you are being perceived as a foreigner and refrain from speaking with Anglo Americans during the voting season when Trump is the candidate or during his presidency lest you want to deal with that kind of MAGA fanatically noxious, kneejerk reaction.
So in order to make America Great again, all that is needed is to remove these immigrants, and Voila! America will be great again. Of course his followers have absolutely no qualms with this conclusion, since they have been anti-immigrants all their lives. So to them, his rhetoric is merely a license to express what they have been wanting to openly express all along.
Of course this doesn't just affect illegal immigrants. It affects all those who have been born here or have been here all their lives and who are now suddenly being considered fair game and are constantly coming under attack at schools places of employment, government offices, etc. Usually such immigrants look either from the Middle East or else what is deemed as typically Latino, such as Mestizo.
So if a USA citizen physically resembles the vast majority of illegals, MAGAS will tend to classify the individual as worthy of persecution via all types of disrespect. Ironically, such persons might have been in the USA for decades, or even an entire lifetime. But that will not make any difference when a MAGA spots him. Off goes the alarm and anything that the tagged person says will be misconstrued or twisted in some devious way to justify the barrage of insults that will follow.
For example, I, who am readily identified as Latino, once said that the tomatoes at a farmer's market were not as ripe as they seemed to be, and the Anglo American I was speaking to immediately latched on to that statement as if I were an ungrateful immigrant criticizing his beloved country and started angrily declaring that the tomatoes from Mexico are much worse.
Now, I am not Mexican, and am totally unfamiliar with the quality of their produce. So I had absolutely no reference point with which to visualize Mexican tomatoes. However, I was made to feel uncomfortable. As if I had just spoken to someone about a country that I did not consider my own even though I have been in the USA all my life. It seemed that in his frenzied MAGA mind, I had just finished swimming illegally across the Rio Grande.
Another time, at a post office , while waiting in line, I casually mentioned that delivery of my mail had been delayed. Immediately, this elderly Anglo American dude exploded out of nowhere declaring that the united States postal service is the best there is, and that other countries are far worse, and furthermore, how dare I criticize HIS country. Of course I know absolutely nothing about what he is referring to since I have only lived in the USA. But unfortunately, in his peanut-sized fanatical brain, he imagined me as totally familiar with foreign country postal services, comparing them with the USA postal service in terms of efficiency, and rudely and maliciously declaring them superior.
Yet another time, this MAGA bus driver, a young Anglo American female, suddenly stopped the bus in the middle of the road, just because I asked her a simple question about her next stop.
"You are supposed to know!" she angrily declared. That delay was approx. ten minutes long while she disgorged her fanatical MAGA prejudice against a person whom she considered a foreigner in HER country.
Now, just recently, I mentioned that I was unable to catch a cab because all the cab companies said most of their cab drivers had taken the day off because of rain causing me to miss my hospital appointment. Please note that when I commented, I forgot that I was speaking to an Anglo American who was silently perceiving me as a foreigner, and the pernicious cause of all his country's problems.
But can you blame me? After all, how can a person who has been in a country for eighty years not feel like a legitimate citizen? Well, my casual statement made me, the supposed foreigner, his enemy, and he has been glaring angrily at me at the store ever since.
Then there was this elderly Anglo American MAGA woman who had been waiting beside the long line of people at the social security office. I apologized for having accidentally stepped beyond her location while in line, and suddenly, all hell broke lose.
You see, as a MAGA, she saw her opportunity and grabbed it by threatening me with violence at the hands of this male African American dude whom she had been conversing with, and who seemed to feel that I deserved her disrespect.
"You take my place in line and he is capable of taking care of you!" she belligerently declared, as he smiled confidently.
In response, I calmly I gestured in his direction with my umbrella informing her that I was not as easy to overpower as she was imagining, and he gradually backed out of the scene.
Yet she persisted and began referring to me as "These people!" It was just after Trump had visited Puerto Rico and had arrogantly and callously delivered his insults, and she wholeheartedly shared his sentiments.
Accused island Puerto Ricans, who supposedly included me, as not doing enough to help themselves during the hurricane, as she anxiously gazed around at others in line as if requesting that they join in her frenetic tirade. Luckily for me, she found no support. Probably because they were not MAGAS, and rightfully considered her behavior as uncivilized.
Now, this identical aggressive behavior was not restricted to the mundane. No siree Bob. Religious membership proved to be no barrier. You see, it was repeated by a MAGA at the steps of a synagogue, where this Germanic looking Jew appeared ready to physically attack in order to keep me out. It occurred at a Catholic church, where this MAGA falsely accused me of using the restroom to masturbate after I briefly went there to urinate. Then it occurred at a Quaker meeting place, where this supposedly inspired Anglo American Quaker MAGA, began calmly describing me as attending their meeting without knowing why, and as being a member of a marginalized group.
Curiously, all this garbage was triggered by my mere presence which they felt indicated illegal alien.
Conclusion? It's unwise to assume that people are perceiving you as a citizen of the United states if you can be identified as Latino or from the middle East. So it is best assume that you are being perceived as a foreigner and refrain from speaking with Anglo Americans during the voting season when Trump is the candidate or during his presidency lest you want to deal with that kind of MAGA fanatically noxious, kneejerk reaction.
Is this negative effect just my imagination? Well, not according to this excerpt:
Accusations of racism
Regarding the use of it since 2015, the phrase "Make America Great Again" is considered a loaded phrase. Marissa Melton, a Voice of America journalist, among others, explained how it is a loaded phrase because it "doesn't just appeal to people who hear it as racist coded language, but also to those who have felt a loss of status as other groups have become more empowered."
As Sarah Churchwell explains, the slogan now resonates as America First did in the early 1940s, with the idea "that the true version of America is the America that looks like me, the American fantasy I imagine existed before it was diluted with other races and other people."
Writing opinion for the Los Angeles Times, Robin Abcarian wrote that "[w]earing a 'Make America Great Again' hat is not necessarily an overt expression of racism. But if you wear one, it's a pretty good indication that you share, admire or appreciate President Trump's racist views about Mexicans, Muslims and border walls."
The Detroit Free Press and the Los Angeles Times reported how several of their readers rejected this characterization and did not believe the slogan or MAGA hats are evidence of racism, seeing them more in patriotic or American nationalist terms.
Los Angeles Times columnist Nicholas Goldberg described MAGA as both one of the worst campaign slogans ever and "a fabulous campaign slogan", writing: "It was vague enough to appeal to optimists generally, while leaving plenty of room for bitter and resentful voters to conclude that we were finally going back to the days when they ran the world."
A 2018 study that used text mining and semantic network analytics of Twitter text and hashtags networks found that the "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain" and "#MAGA" hashtags were commonly used by white supremacist and white nationalist users, and had been used as "an organizing discursive space" for far-right extremists globally.