Politics: Racist Dog Whistles

I think that this is the right way of phrasing what I’m wanting to talk about. There are some common and well known phrases out there that are always downright racist yet commonly used by people. I don’t like them and will explain what is wrong with all of them. I only have three and can only hope that this covers the gist of it without leaving out any.

 

Learn the language: Why do people insist that people who live in this country have to learn the English language? It is downright rude in order to insist that. People don’t have to learn English to live here. Why should they?

 

Protect our borders: Borders don’t really need protecting and if they did, it should be from only the four southern states that actually share a border with Mexico. Here are people thinking that we need this sort of protection against people who just want a better living situation such as higher pay but don’t bring in all the crime and violence that people think that they do.

 

Don’t like it here, leave: I don’t care if you say this to me, a natural born citizen who is also white and has spent less than a month outside of the country. This is a very racist thing to say and should never be said to anyone for any reason. While I plan to write more about this in a post in the future, this isn’t something that even makes sense. Why leave when you can stay and help make things better? And why is this often directed at non-whites who are also natural born citizens of this country? Fuck that.

 

And now you have the first of a planned recurring set of Friday posts of this blog that like the cast updates will now be shared with another blog. I will be posting the last Saturday update of this blog for a while tomorrow before getting to just Fridays for possibly the rest of this year, but we’ll see what happens.