• immutable@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Gru meme

    1. Gain power by being a reality tv star who denigrates immigrants
    2. make immigrants reality tv stars
    3. Make immigrants popular and relatable
    4. make immigrants popular and relatable

    The best defense against hate is familiarity. Please go forward with your stupid plan, show hardworking dedicated immigrants, tell their inspiring backstories, put them on week after week for people to root for and cheer on, then deny all but one citizenship and see how people react.

    It is easy to hate an abstract caricature of an immigrant. It’s a hell of a lot harder to hate Jose, who you’ve watched struggle and succeed for the last 8 weeks only to be shipped off to CECOT because he lost the immunity challenge.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Those people have no problem with other cultures so long as there’s some vague misogynist. Homophonic. Manly Tough guy overlap

      Why do you think MAGA is so comfortable with Afrikaaners who had dubious ties to Apartheid. The Russian elite and its bloodthirsty mafia tactics over the continent. The south American regimes that throw people from helicopters. Etc