It may be a factor but it shouldn't be the deciding factor.
That's not really answering the question I'm asking.
I'm asking for your opinion here...
Do you think race
should be a factor in those kinds of decisions?
I don't assume it IS but I assume that the is POSSIBLE.
But you do assume it is happening....
After all, that's how you described racism "today"....it's hidden from plain sight.
That was when were "the melting pot." Meaning we all conform to the norms of European culture. These days people bring their culture here and keep it more like a tossed salad. Different individual flavors making up one dish (country). We are a country of immigrants My great grandparents came from Sweden. When they got here and became citizens they dropped their old language and didn't teach it to their children because they were now Americans. People these days hold on to their home culture. Also, many people born here seek knowledge of and celebrate their original culture whether it be West African, Irish, Lithuanian, or whatever. People feel connected to their roots more than the American cultural ideal these days it seems.
This isn't exactly what I was referring to...but hey, I'll comment on this instead.
We have engaged in a sort of politically correct lie...we tell people that it's immoral or unethical to criticize someone's culture (with a few exceptions) yet we believe it's acceptable to criticize our own (a right that is basically non-partisan).
This automatically creates a sort of social environment where even if we think the society/culture that someone left to come here is awful (and the only people I've found who genuinely imagine everywhere else is better are those who don't know anything about other cultures)....we don't tell them their native culture is awful. That would be rude....disrespectful....yet the same people have no issue with telling someone who has a t-shirt with a confederate flag they're an awful racist piece of garbage.
And so we've continued along this sort of narrow view for several decades now....with mainly the left insisting that it's bigoted or xenophobic or something to criticize a foreign culture or society (with a few exceptions).
When you realize this means we likely have an entire group of young people who have never heard anyone legitimately criticize another culture or society....but have heard almost endless criticism of their own.
It's not difficult to understand why this person might overlook the Uighyer genocide or the second class citizen status of women in many nations...or the brutal treatment of homosexuals....all things you would imagine a young Democrat voter to be against...
Yet when asked....they respond that they support Palestine, despite sharing values with Israel. Women aren't protected from domestic abuse by any laws...so unfortunately, many experience abuse regularly. Last I checked, it's illegal to be gay in Palestine.
Yet, as I write these words....it's hard for me to think of a young leftist responding to these points in some kind of consistent manner. It is this bizarre view of not criticizing other cultures as being some sort of moral good. It's been carried on so long that young people on the left appear to hold contradictory and ridiculous views of both their nation and others.
