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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Arizona Loses Illusions and Blows Own Cover by nezua. written Friday, April 30th, 2010 11:51 am ARIZONA, the State of Denial, has spun into a legislative carnival of lunacy with the latest ethnic cleansing maneuver. Teachers with accents will be barred from teaching English, and Chicano Studies linked to terrorism/revolution and banned from schools. THE USA WHITE SOUTH has always been a bit…collectively delusional. But you can’t blame that on the South. It’s long been the American way (as well as the way of a number of other countries and peoples throughout time) to blaze into an area, steal land through legitimized war, law, or other displays of naked aggression and then imagine it can be remade and the history and rights of those who lived there, forgotten. I can’t quite agree with the characterization of the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote—I don’t see Mexican/Mexican culture as a negative, nor bemoan the fact that nature and reality tend to assert themselves despite humankinds’ persistent fantasies to the contrary—but I do appreciate, even as he was a member of the growing Empire, his grasp of the future: —Ralph Waldo Emerson, 72;prior to the American Invasion of México He’s kind of saying…you can’t fool Mother Nature. Or…truth will out. Either way, in this day and age and cultural mood, this sounds terribly dramatic and fearsome, but of course, coming from a member of an imperialist , colonizing nation the view makes sense. It is, albeit with some insight, and I’d like to imagine a dollop of moral foreboding—the very same lens that most the lawmakers in Arizona are seeing through. All while they and the GOP croak-soothy and tell us these sorts of bills are attempting to Protect America or some weird racist shit like that. But the mask slips in this Age of Obama and the Terrifying® notion of a shrinking white population. And the mask finally, I think, is falling. “This is just one more indication of the incredible anti-immigrant sentiment in the state,” said Bruce Merrill, a professor emeritus at Arizona State University who conducts public-opinion research. [...] Adding insult to injury, the Arizona legislature passed a bill yesterday outlawing ethnic studies programs: HB 2281 would make it illegal for a school district to have any courses or classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity “instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.” It also would ban classes that “promote resentment toward a race or class of people.” The measure is directed at the Tuscon Unified School District’s popular Mexican-American studies department … It’s cute how they tie “overthrowing the government” with “ethnic studies.” But we know, of course, it is not Chican@s who are talking about overthrowing this corrupt government. It’s white people, today. Patriots. Joe Stack types. Oathkeepers and Oklahoma Bomber types. I will make clear that I am not interested in a culture war that pits “white culture” vs remembering my roots and family and the history of the US and Mexico. Firstly, I don’t know what “white culture” is. It seems to me a phrase trying to pose an object by naming a non-entity, as “whiteness” is really a implied negation posing as an entity in the first place. White Culture, as it were, doesn’t exist. It can only reasonably be identified when no other cultural signifier exists. It’s an ideological vacuum. That’s why when Glenn Doofus Beck was asked what white culture actually was, he thought IT WAS A TRICK QUESTION. Let that soak in for a second: Glenn Beck admits that his own beliefs are tricks played on him by others. And yet, he lacks any self reflection of the fact that he has been brainwashed into a type of young senility. All while thinking, somehow, that he has anything of worth to say to anyone about anything—especially culture and identity!! Secondly, I don’t see a problem with me remembering my history, familia, and the history of the US invasion into Mexico and related realities. I just don’t see this as competition with what old, white people in Arizona want to do with their day. So Arizona is really losing it’s cool. And I am very glad the mask is dropping. ICE, Arpaio, FAIR, AZ’s always harsh and hostile posture toward immigrants (ahem, Mexicans) Culture-Murder/Intellectual Ethnic Cleansing agendas, as shown in this latest move…. The most frustrating and crazymaking part of focusing on, eradicating, or exposing racist movements is that since they are movements based on fear and ignorance, they slither; they do not stand in truth. They are afraid to admit their real intent. (Because even those harmful humans do have a heart and conscience and working mind, tho slathered under the sediment of self-deception, and so do have shame for their actions on a deep, dark, quiet and subverbal level.) They live in confusion, in other words. So they sow confusion in others in order to carry out their work. Without that public ignorance cloak to shield them, the gig falls apart with enough people walking away from that energy and agenda. Which is what is happening today in the USA. That’s why Dan Stein of FAIR on Maddow the other day was so furious. (Ew, he has such an ugly energy!) That’s why all he cared about was how what Rachel was doing was sowing “division” between FAIR and “Hispanics.” If FAIR loses its fake-ass image of being One With the People and ONLY against ILLEGULZ, they’ve got nada. AZ, in losing its cool, is blowing the lid off all that cover. It’s a scary, ugly, beautiful thing.
Poster Comment: Dude's right; and WHITES can do business with him. "Americans", "Constitutionalists", "patriots", "tea partiers", yada yada cannot. And they will lose, just like Dixie did.
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#18. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
I am amused. NOT teaching a foreign culture, and the politics of resentment is somehow racist in this moron's "mind". Preserving American culture is not racist and rejecting curriculums designed to promote a culture inimical to our existing common culture is not racist. It is no different than taking a pair of tweezers and removing a splinter. It is an irritation and a source of infection. The intelligent thing to do is to remove the divisive splinter. This is not to say that people need divorce themselves completely from the traditions of their ancestors, but that when those traditions, and views, come in conflict with the culture shared by all they can be rightfully rejected. Many of the so-called hispanic advocacy groups are specifically in the business sowing division and are only agitators at best. They use the existence of illegals to promote their socialist/communist political agenda which is of benefit to neither the illegals nor the people who are here lawfully. The question of equality before the law and enforcement of OUR standards and OUR LAWS is not racist. It is simply common sense and is fairer and more just than anyone can expect in that corrupt hellhole known as Mexico. A culture is a fragile thing and the entire point of promoting the "rights" of those here contrary to our laws is to drive a wedge in between different groups and splintering the culture. To create a "Tower of Babel" effect with language and culture separating people into more easily dominated, and smaller, groups. "All the better to enslave you with my dear." A common culture provides social cohesion. It promotes the propagation of standards and principles held by the majority of members within the given culture. This is not an argument that any particular culture is superior (although I do support and promote the cultural ideal of individual liberty) it is an argument that the introduction of a large mass of members of a foreign culture destabilizes a society fragmenting it and creating a socially chaotic environment. If you want to live in Mexican culture then move to Mexico. If you want to live in the United States you had better be prepared to grasp and operate within AMERICAN culture.
#21. To: Original_Intent (#18)
A++
One need look no further than Japan to see the truth of that statement. They have a relatively homogeneous culture and it is very hard for foreigners to be accepted there (to live I mean, not necessarily to visit and spend money).
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