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Brokaw says Hispanics should try harder to assimilate

glenn1 said:
Brokaw says Hispanics should try harder to assimilate
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Just about all of the Hispanics I worked with have been outstanding members of society.

Last welding shop I worked at there were was a hispanic welder, and a sand blaster / painter. Those guys worked their ass off.

Other shops I worked at it was the same thing. They never complained, never felt entitled, and were hard workers. They rarely, if ever, missed a days work.
 
To sum up: Fox News viewers who constantly rant about immigrant groups not assimilating feign outrage because some liberal talking head said the same thing.
 
brycejones said:
This thread will go somewhere.

Trying to tie in the Gillette ad reeks of the op trying desperately for attention.
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What I would love to see is for these conservative types to connect the dots, but I won't hold my breath.
 
Texashiker said:
Just about all of the Hispanics I worked with have been outstanding members of society.

Last welding shop I worked at there were was a hispanic welder, and a sand blaster / painter. Those guys worked their ass off.

Other shops I worked at it was the same thing. They never complained, never felt entitled, and were hard workers. They rarely, if ever, missed a days work.
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That’s not really at issue here. What has been argued is that folks should be able to give out advice while anodyne still implies the viewer isn’t living up to it (e.g. “be a better man”) and the recipients should be happy about it. This is the same sort of anodyne advice (“be better at assimilating”) and no one seems to be telling Hispanics not to complain about it. Maybe someone should make a Gillette style ad about women (“don’t commit paternity fraud or use abortion as birth control”) so they can show men and Hispanics to take advice like this.
 
K1052 said:
I would trade basically everybody over 65 in this country for all the people Mexico and Central America wanna send us.
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Don't play into the ageist bullshit, OK? Brokaw's disconnect is born of privilege, not malice. He's expounding on something he doesn't understand.
 
The Hispanics do try to assimilate. Muslims from the Middle East are the ones who stay within their own communities and don’t assimilate well (very broad generalization). But yes any immigrant needs to assimilate. The melting pot doesn’t work if they don’t melt.
 
UglyCasanova said:
The Hispanics do try to assimilate. Muslims from the Middle East are the ones who stay within their own communities and don’t assimilate well (very broad generalization). But yes any immigrant needs to assimilate. The melting pot doesn’t work if they don’t melt.
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How could Muslim immigrants do a better job of assimilating? Convert to Christianity maybe?
 
Vic said:
How could Muslim immigrants do a better job of assimilating? Convert to Christianity maybe?
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Stop wearing them funny clothes on their heads. Or they could stop creating all of those no-go zones and forcing their religious laws on everyone around them. Oh wait that only happens in GOP fan fic.
 
Vic said:
The lack of self-awareness is real.
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So in your POV is assimilation bad and we shouldn’t ask those living here (including Hispanics) to do so? Or is it a good thing and you just feel it’s unfair to ask it of Hispanics because you feel they aren’t up to the task?
 
glenn1 said:
So in your POV is assimilation bad and we shouldn’t ask those living here (including Hispanics) to do so? Or is it a good thing and you just feel it’s unfair to ask it of Hispanics because you feel they aren’t up to the task?
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I think the discussion of assimilation is silly. For starters, because I like Hispanic food. But mostly because we're the Land of the Free, and not the fucking Borg.

The lack of self-awareness I referring to though is something else. It's when conservatives get all worked up because some non-conservative said something that they say all the time.
 
Texashiker said:
Just about all of the Hispanics I worked with have been outstanding members of society.

Last welding shop I worked at there were was a hispanic welder, and a sand blaster / painter. Those guys worked their ass off.

Other shops I worked at it was the same thing. They never complained, never felt entitled, and were hard workers. They rarely, if ever, missed a days work.
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and yet you want to murder them.

that's hilarious, man.
 
glenn1 said:
So in your POV is assimilation bad and we shouldn’t ask those living here (including Hispanics) to do so? Or is it a good thing and you just feel it’s unfair to ask it of Hispanics because you feel they aren’t up to the task?
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You assume they need to be asked, which isn't the case at all. It's bullshit.
 
Jhhnn said:
You assume they need to be asked, which isn't the case at all. It's bullshit.
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Yep the same way Gillette figured men needed to be asked. And since women still commit paternity fraud and use abortion as birth control I guess they need to be "asked" not to do so as well.
 
glenn1 said:
Yep the same way Gillette figured men needed to be asked. And since women still commit paternity fraud and use abortion as birth control I guess they need to be "asked" not to do so as well.
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Lol yes because men haven't been shitty to women for centuries. It's all women's fault.

I keep forgetting white protestant men are horribly under attack.
 
glenn1 said:
Yep the same way Gillette figured men needed to be asked. And since women still commit paternity fraud and use abortion as birth control I guess they need to be "asked" not to do so as well.
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Being reminded not to be a Dick really sticks in your craw, huh?
 
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