Comments for Xenophobia: And the hatred that goes with it at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:31:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1512-xenophobia-and-the-hatred-that-goes-with-it.html#comment-9463 this isn't the way to solve issues if you say hatress how many people in america are illegal immigrants do you think they like it to be that way and on top of all you hate and fear illegal immigrants if you didin't you wouldn't say that htis act won't solve any but will create many. - thembalethu Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:27:31 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1512-xenophobia-and-the-hatred-that-goes-with-it.html#comment-2122 Mr. lamont displays all the classic symptoms of the prevailing meme. Dear John, You are truly ignorant aren't you? Your first point says it all. - Hazel Mon, 07 May 2007 19:42:23 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1512-xenophobia-and-the-hatred-that-goes-with-it.html#comment-2117 Then explain Mr. Pitz, if we're so godawful evil, racist and bad, why millions upon millions have begged, borrowed, and stole to stream across the America's border for the past 300-400 years? Could it be that you've just mindlessly regurgitated the same baseless claptrap that affects the world's opinion of us far more than our actions? Also you have a rather narrow and nieve view of history. 1. Hatred toward natives. Yes we did terrible things, things which were generally preceeded by the massacre, rape and scalping of white settlers: men, women, and children. 2. Irish and Chinese. I'm not sure where this idea of endemic hatred comes from. We needed a railroad built, they were paid to do it. I'm sure they weren't treated well, but worse than a typical lower class immigrant of any country of the day? 3. The early history of burning witches. For a brief period Salem, Massachusettes suffered under mass hysteria. No one was burned. This can hardly be attributed to any generalization of America. 4. Slavery. Granted, a terrible thing. It's worth noting however that as an institution we had it because Britain started it (therefore not an inherently American institution), and even then to characterize the white feeling of their slaves as "hatred" is inaccurate. Hatred of minorities became much greater later on in American history. You decry the call for immigrants to "assimilate" and compare the current attitude to the turn of the century. Regardless of the validity of this, the major difference in the times lies in the effort of the immigrants themselves to conform and Americanize. The issue with current anti-illegal immigration feelings lies at heart in the rejection of American culture. There is little desire to become American, and only a feeling of discontent brewed by propagandists telling the poor and disadvantaged that their rightful place (or land) in the world has been unfairly taken from them. And being American, should there be any hesitation as living as such? We are a country based on freedom, and those freedoms have allowed the immigrants (legal and otherwise) the freedom to come here, and make a life for themselves as they will. Those same freedoms allow those people to leave the same way they came in. I don't mean this as a typical "If you don't like it, go back to ..." statement. But simply as a matter of fact. America is the way it is, and more or less always has been. If I don't like it myself, then I certainly have the freedom to emigrate back to Scotland. Legally of course. - John Lamont Mon, 07 May 2007 14:12:56 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1512-xenophobia-and-the-hatred-that-goes-with-it.html#comment-2111 You just don't get it. It is not that we "hate" or "fear" immigrants. It is the [b]ILLEGAL[/b] immigrants that are the problem for the rest of us that are here legally. Until you get that you will not truly understand the problems that are going on out here in the real world. - Truth Hurts Mon, 07 May 2007 03:17:09 +0100