facts are tribal
what part and how
well for starters he claimed that no muslims should be allowed into the country, and then he implied that muslims were not civilized like The Good Old Days(tm) when "100% of the immigrants were civilized Europeans" (he means white people), which is not only tribal, but objectively false. irish europeans fleeing from the devastating potato famine (much like the many muslims fleeing from oppressive regimes/dangerous terrorist organizations) were treated very poorly, and viewed as uncivilized people who came to america to steal jobs.
to draw some parallels between The Good Old Days and now:
- Of the 70% of Irish that were servants, two thirds were Irish women.
- Irish servants were noted to be full of melancholy and loneliness
- Irish women suffered from high levels of mental illness
- As a result, by 1908, there were more Irish than there were any other nationality in a mental hospital
- The Know-Nothing Party-a political party in the late 19th century--developed with "native" Americans who hated the immigrant influx particularly the Irish.
- Established working class America resented the Irish laborers who would work for anything
- Employers would place signs with NINA scrawled across the front. NINA spelled out is No Irish Need Apply, this would often be seen next to the No Dogs Allowed signs.
- In the 1870's & 80's, Irishman were portrayed on stage and in cartoons penned by famous cartoonist Thomas Nast, RF Outcault and other cartoonists as bumbling, idiots, erratic, pugnacious drunks
(source:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug03/omara-alwala/irishkennedys.html)
and if he's implying that the white europeans who claimed america for their own and slaughtered the natives living there were the "good immigrants", that's even worse than it already was. either way, a horribly insensitive thing for tezuni to post.
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