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Racist dog whistle if I ever heard one... Props to those who disagreed.
Laura Ingraham: America as we know it doesnt exist anymore due to demographic changes
By Brett Samuels - 08/09/18 09:01 AM EDT
Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday lamented that the American we know and love doesnt exist anymore, because of demographic changes in the country that she blamed on illegal and legal immigration.
Ingraham was reacting to comments from House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who described in a recent podcast interview the way the country has changed over the past few decades, including the decline of the upper-middle class.
Shes kind of right in a general sense, Ingraham said after mocking Ocasio-Cortez's comments.
Now much of this is related to both illegal, and in some cases, legal immigration that of course progressives love, she added.
Ingraham went on to argue that Democrats oppose enforcing immigration laws, which is harming the country. She called for improved border security, the end of sanctuary city policies and the closure of immigration loopholes.
"Remember the old Democrats maybe some of them Ocasio-Cortez is referring to they used to think that borders mattered," she said. "But the new activists believe enforcing immigration laws is essentially an ongoing human rights violation."
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Wounded Bear
(58,754 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)and leave the people who care about this country alone.
Afromania
(2,771 posts)She seems to forget that in her Amerika she would be required to stay at home, listen to "father" and take care of those awful stepford children you'd just know she'd spawn.
I won't even be bothered to mention how her Amerika would have been for anybody not white,of course we know that she knows and approves of how it was.
edit: also fivers for everybody else down thread with posts in the same vein.
Wounded Bear
(58,754 posts)it would be easy for me to agree with her.
However, I have grown up, at least a little. And I have become painfully aware that "her America" was not a very nice place for far too many of my fellow citizens. Many people were not well treated in this country and it is long past time to stamp down on the white supremacist bullshit that permeates too much of our nation.
deurbano
(2,896 posts)from Russia.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)theaocp
(4,245 posts)...and in defense of Native Americans. So many demographic changes.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Tragic irony in her racist words. I guess SHE is right in a sense.
jcgoldie
(11,656 posts)They know their era of white privilege is coming to an end so they are going to use this falsely elected jackass to throw out anyone who doesn't look like them or make it impossible for them to vote. It explains the stupid wall when the numbers show immigration is less a problem now than its been for 30 years, it explains their undemocratic attempts at voter suppression, and it explains why they are willing to suck Putin's dick if it means they can cling to their god guns and racism at home. She's right the America they love is coming to an end... thank goodness for that. Let's just hope Cheetolini doesn't burn down what's left before we can take it back.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)who gave the nazi salute on stage on national TV.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)It's a fucking Fog Horn!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,675 posts)I mean its not clear to me what @IngrahamAngle thinks well lose with the demographic shift. If anyone misses people like her its easy to train a Golden Retriever to bark at black people
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Nevilledog
(51,233 posts)JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Let's hope her kind -- the snobby, DAR "My ancestors came over with the Pilgrims" type of bigot who thinks people of color should be cleaning up after her and not heard -- will soon die out.
Dulcinea
(6,672 posts)There was a time when the Irish, Italians, & Eastern Europeans weren't considered white people, & were destroying America's moral fiber. Should we go back to that?
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was the Jeff Sessions of his day! https://medium.com/@michaeldelong/the-jeff-sessions-of-his-day-senator-henry-cabot-lodge-and-immigration-restriction-8b3910c7d036
CatMor
(6,212 posts)because of Fox News and her and of course the biggest crook, con man ever trump.
deurbano
(2,896 posts)the son of an immigrant mother. (Imagine how much better off America would be if those two had stayed home.) But somehow, I don't think those are the kinds (colors) of immigrants Laura is ranting about.
still_one
(92,470 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)From a Buddhist perspective, hers is the very point of view that keeps her and her ilk in fear, resentment, and bigotry, because change is all there is. All things are impermanent. Everything is always in the flux of change. We have the capacity to deal with change, and find beneficial ways to take advantage of change. But no ------- it is that relentless attachment to having things be the same that ensures our eternal dissatisfaction with the ways things are.
And of course, under all that racist bigotry is the fear that our children and grandchildren will marry and have children with people of color. Well I lived in a multicultural environment. The most physically attractive people around were of mixed race. And even so, they weren't all that different than people anywhere. They wanted to be happy. To fall in love. To know their children were safe and went to a good school. To provide for their families. To have interesting and rewarding work.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Not even subtle.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)of diverse people mostly descended from immigrants, both willing and forced, of new mmigrants, and of original peoples.
The thing is, some people, many of them pretty nice, until recently really saw it mostly as a sort of Ozzie and Harriet America; and where that image frayed, they still imagined that could mostly be restored with better times. Now we're living through the inevitable end to that delusion. It's been a huge and very unpleasant awakening, creating a great deal of anxiety in a type of people who by definition do not deal with change and uncertainty well. They'll need time, but most will calm down. Others will continue dying off.
Large numbers of us always liked the real America, of course. Ingraham can deny it all she wants to her aging, mean little audience (3M out of 330M), but the real America elected Obama twice and followed that with our first woman president. Horrible demographics that we are.
matt819
(10,749 posts)America doesn't exist as we know it because of the hate, racism, misogyny, bigotry, and more that you and your fellow right winger spew out every day, and so give cover to your fellow travelers in hate. If it weren't for that, we'd be fine. We'd have issues to address, sure. But you and your kind would be back under the rocks you crawled out from under, and the rest of us could get on with our lives.
Johnny2X2X
(19,212 posts)Not since the 1940s did news personalities have the gumption to spew blatantly racist BS like this. This is not normal, this is White Supremacy. Ingraham is a Xenophobic racist! She should be fired for this, but she'll be praised for it.
hatrack
(59,594 posts)Why don't you just go claw at your own face and scream until you bleed/pass out, (redacted)?
ProfessorGAC
(65,269 posts). . .i suggest you begin to adjust. If that's a capability that exists.
Yavin4
(35,453 posts)Very little racial/ethinic** diversity there.
**Racial/ethnic in the American sense of those words.
TlalocW
(15,392 posts)Though I grew up in rural Kansas comes from Sesame Street (minus the puppet characters for the most part). One where Maria is sitting on the stoop of their building and stops Bob as he leaves for work to ask if he would like to try a traditional Puerto Rican food that her family just sent her.
TlalocW
Caliman73
(11,755 posts)Is what a lot of right wingers would say to you. Conservatives do not like Sesame Street explicitly because of the multi-cultural focus that it presents as normative.
This is what many conservatives consider liberal indoctrination and why they also hate higher education because it introduces viewpoints other than the dominant discourse.
Vinca
(50,319 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,499 posts)And ever since then.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Link to tweet
You KNOW that the shark has jumped.
Note Laura did not leave out condemning LEGAL immigration. Too bad she was not around when Trump married three foreign wives, or when his Pimp of the Klondike Grandpa came in from Germany, or his mother from Scotland.
Nevilledog
(51,233 posts)Rene
(1,183 posts)I've had my good IT job with three different companies outsourced to India...to IBM Global Services....three times since 2001
Company owners/management have have brought in H1B visa folks....made us train them, in order to get our severance.....and then sent our jobs overseas to be supported by people over there. Left us scrambling for lesser paying scarcer jobs.
They think nothing of sending our American held jobs overseas...leaving us with no equivalent employment.
C_U_L8R
(45,026 posts)Purposely does not include racists and xenophobes like Ingraham and her chorus of trumpy-smelling morons
Gothmog
(145,699 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,320 posts)Vast majority of people there are white.
oasis
(49,431 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Here we go again with another wave of attacks against conservative Laura Ingraham who once again speakss the truth about the browning of America.
1 posted on 8/9/2018, 3:42:30 PM by Proud White Trump Supporter
I do not want my country turned into a shithole. Enough is enough......
7 posted on 8/9/2018, 3:50:57 PM by gathersnomoss (Regressive Swamp Dwellers)
phylny
(8,392 posts)"I did not vote for your daughter to come from Guatemala, but as a Progressive, I welcome her. As a Virginian, Im really fine with the demographics here. Thanks for your concern."
spanone
(135,905 posts)I fart in her general direction