Idaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”
Idaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”
The irony has been palpable for over a century. Bizarre that we still accept it as a society
That's not the irony.
The irony is people flying the flag of violent traitors who fought a bloody war against this country while screaming that anybody who doesn't like it here should get out.
We desperately needed to let them leave back then, the country would be so much better.
As long as we can keep the port of New Orleans and navigation rights to the Mississippi River, they can go disappear right up their misinformed idea of God's asshole. "The South" is a luxury we can no longer afford.
But hey, at least we changed a few sports team names. So that's something, right?
The person he said that to missed a great opportunity to say, "sure. Give me your house keys."
Right after you do!
How does someone like this become senator?
People in power usually aren't smart. They just have money from their parents or grandparents. This isn't a meritocracy. Idiots rule the world
Protest votes.
State senator, not real senator.
Racists are allowed to vote and do so en masse
This stupid fuck of a senator needs to go back to where he came from (sorry Illinois, you can’t just dump your garbage in other states like that)
Even better: she's from the Nez Perce tribe, who do still live in the general area they originally came from. Which isn't always a given for very violent and racist reasons.
So he doesn't come from there, his ancestors definitely didn't come from there, and hers very much did.
"Alright..." looks around at the country his people lived in for longer than white dudes lived in it "....Done, now what?"
Surelly the right answer would've been "Go back to Europe".
(Mind you, as an European, please don't).
lol
Furthermore: lmao
Life imitates art, I'm sure I've seen this in a comedy movie at some point. I just never thought anyone would be dumb enough to say it in real life.
Carpetbagging Idaho state senator....
Then it makes sense. Unless we're talking about white guy going to Europe somewhere and the indigene going 'back' to eastern Russia.
Them: Done. Your turn.
Totally on brand. It will be funny one day for a Native American to say this to one of these racists.
Not wishing to make an unwarranted assumption, I looked up Sen. Foreman's political party. And yes, of course, he's GOP.
Or you could have, you know, read the article.
Talk about thorough.
I wonder what political party he is affiliated with. It's really a mystery, isn't it?
You know what really aggravateses me is them immigants. They want all the benefits of living in Springfield, but they ain't even bothered to learn themselfs the langwich!
Moe Syzlak
They would.
Yeah, about that...
Well, if we are going to be anal about this, the “native american” is simply descended from people who immigrated a lot earlier. No human is truly native to the americas. All immigrants.
EDIT> It seems that I misread / didn’t read the article. Also, I’m not condoning, simply making a comment, that tries to expose the absurdities o of “nativism”.
Thank you, Captain Literal! You saved the day again!
From now on, we'll just call them indigenous instead and still call this state senator a racist fuck. Happy?
Sort of. I don't think it counts as immigration if you're the first people in an area.
Allegedly*
The other politicians there have confirmed that it happened.
“Idaho senator born in another state tells Native American congressional candidate from a tribe native to the state to “go back where you came from.”
It would have been a much wordier headline but relays a lot more pertinent information.
Their ideology is a cancer
An ideology of "I won't listen to you because I'm motivated to oppress everyone else for my own gain," is, most definitely, going to make the world worse. And this will be entirely on purpose, and no one will apologise.
Said this to
Always use names. The veil of "a politician said" or "big company does" is too blinding. Name and shame.
Which state someone is from isn't what people care about.
*Y'all are some funny misreaders. I don't support him, I'm just saying these idiots don't care about the state. Focusing on state for some reason is weird.
It isn't, but to be fair, it absolutely does add an additional layer of irony that they weren't even born there.
"where you come from doesn't matter" says someguy3 in defense of a racist colonist telling someone to go back where they came from while actively living on their land.
The point is the hypocrisy. Telling someone to go back where they came from in a place where you aren't from either is hypocritical as fuck.
I dunno. At some level, when all hope is gone, I find myself hoping the state where I live hasn't gone full fascist.