The Statue of Liberty
Engraved upon the base of the Statue of Liberty is the following passage:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Once upon a time, this was true... America was the destination of many of the tired and the poor, and they were welcomed with open arms[1]. However nowadays, Americans seem to forget that almost all of them are immigrants, at least if this poll is to be believed.
Funny, I don't see any cries for the civil liberties of Christians to be curtailed because of the Ku Klux Klan. There was once a big push to have the Jews treated as a class of secondary citizen. Their properties were seized, and eventually they were sent off to die in massively efficient death camps. History tells us that it never starts out with mass exterminations.
The majority of people still vote against any kind of restriction... but a margin of 4% is beyond the pale. Discrimination is not okay just because it has been sanctioned by the words and actions of the government, and by the complicit propaganda of the international news media.
[1] Occasionally those arms were open so that they could swing the club harder, but hey - I'm eulogising.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Once upon a time, this was true... America was the destination of many of the tired and the poor, and they were welcomed with open arms[1]. However nowadays, Americans seem to forget that almost all of them are immigrants, at least if this poll is to be believed.
Funny, I don't see any cries for the civil liberties of Christians to be curtailed because of the Ku Klux Klan. There was once a big push to have the Jews treated as a class of secondary citizen. Their properties were seized, and eventually they were sent off to die in massively efficient death camps. History tells us that it never starts out with mass exterminations.
The majority of people still vote against any kind of restriction... but a margin of 4% is beyond the pale. Discrimination is not okay just because it has been sanctioned by the words and actions of the government, and by the complicit propaganda of the international news media.
[1] Occasionally those arms were open so that they could swing the club harder, but hey - I'm eulogising.
1 Comments:
It's shocking and very depressing what some people will do or just stand and watch because of fear. Like you say, you start by stigmatising, followed by self-segragation which slowly becomes formalised. Before you know it you have a two-tier class system in place.
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