A 2001 movie about a 1927 novel set in 1863.
What fucking year do they want to go back to??
Edit: And the Gangs are Anglo-Protestant vs Irish Catholic??? I fucking hate it here.
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if he’s trying to prove white people have a history of racial violence he’s making a pretty good point.
you're not going back?
Has anybody ever seen the movie “Gangs of New York?” That’s what I’m talking about. We know that when you have these massive ethnic enclaves forming in our country, it can sometimes lead to higher crime rates. .... things like what we’ve done over the last few years, which is have 20-25 million illegal aliens just setting up shop here with no control, no enforcement, and no real ability to police what’s going on. That is a disaster.
Worth reading the whole quote, the article goes right to it.
So now he's in favor of diversity?
He's in favor of diversity as long as you make a big deal about it with a dog whistle. Like when you tell people that your wife obviously isn't white.
I think he's more on the removing them side of things
No, he's willing to tolerate different shades of skin as long as everybody lives and speaks and votes and in every way acts how he wants.
I doubt he's that open-minded. He's one bottle of whiskey away from suggesting concentration camps for minorities and "woke" people
Massive ethnic enclaves
What does he think white Americans are? North America was doing just fine before the Europeans came.
Counting people here illegally is admittedly a challenge but Pew thinks there are about 11M undocumented immigrants from anywhere. Meanwhile there are about 60M Hispanics in the US including citizens and legal residents of which about 20M were born elsewhere.
He sounds like he's either conflating all foreign born or more likely yet just making up a scary number.
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/latinos-in-the-us-fact-sheet/
One of the things I have not seen explored much, is the degree to which this new crop of "Conservatives" has bought into the notion that what makes you American is not a commitment to certain ideas and institutions, but rather adherence to certain cultural practices, invariably white and either rural or hazy suburban reflections of the rural.
To somebody like J.D. Vance, it's okay to erode democratic norms, because that doesn't threaten America. To him, being properly American is a deeply banal cultural heritage: stupid shit like liking baseball, pickup trucks, and Diet Mountain Dew. Anything that is counter to that might be grudgingly tolerated because proper Americans are such great ~~Volk~~ folks, but they must know their place and not insist on any public role in the future of the country. If there's too many un-American people doing shit like eating tacos or having drag shows or listening to rap or not going to a megachurch, then maybe a little voter suppression here and a few lynch mobs there is a small price to pay to ensure "real" Americans can continue to live without having to acknowledge neighbors that are visibly different from them. Hell, they're such lovely Americans that they may even be okay with the color of your skin, so long as literally everything else you do comports with their expectations, Usha.
If there's something special about America, it's just that it has the bones and the diversity to support a pluralistic culture where everyone could be an equal contributor to what it means to be "American." These assholes know they don't have the raw numbers to run things any longer, so they're using the political inertia and bullshit to try to ensconce a true apartheid state where a minority of frightened, insular white people dictate policy for everyone.
It's gross, and it's deeply scary. And I say that as a pretty boring cis het white guy who grew up in the suburbs of northeast Florida, kinda likes Diet Mountain Dew, and has owned two pickup trucks in his lifetime.
One of the things I have not seen explored much, is the degree to which this new crop of "Conservatives" has bought into the notion that what makes you American is not a commitment to certain ideas and institutions, but rather adherence to certain cultural practices, invariably white and either rural or hazy suburban reflections of the rural.
I think more and more centrists are buying into this, also. There's a growing call for abandoning multiculturalism because groups aren't integrating enough, which I feel is precisely a cultural practice definition of nationality. "London isn't for the English anymore!" they say, for example.
JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on
Okay, we've started crossing over from 'weird' into 'inhuman' territory now.
I am sure Martin Scorsese is thrilled to hear that his film is being used as an excuse to persecute immigrants.
Racism and cleanup in the furniture aisle
My wife often says she can't understand any woman who votes R these days. I am not a PoC (nor is my wife) but I can't fathom how any PoC can vote R these days. (or any days since the southern strategy really)
There's a lot of stupid people out there.
Rather, I'd say there are many immigrant groups with culturally conservative values (think Hispanic Catholics, BJP-aligned Indian immigrants, conservative Muslims, etc.) as well as certain more religious and patriarchal Black communities, that have a lot in common with the Republicans on social issues, and might be willing to overlook their racism if they find the Democrats' stance on those issues unacceptable. Think also of expat communities that came to America on the heels of Communist revolutions in their home countries and have a reflexive hatred of even vaguely left-ish politics.
In a sick way, we're lucky that the GOP's embrace of racial hatred pushes as many people away as it does, because if they'd let that go they'd have a much broader base amongst minorities.
There's a hope that if you out-white the white people, maybe you'll be safe. And the extremist right loves nothing more than a self-loathing minority willing to voice the master narrative. It helps then politically and it viscerally demonstrates ideological domination over a person.
For instance, a man saying women belong in the home as breeding vessels under the domination of a man is not as powerful as a woman saying the same thing. Roughly equivalent when it's a racial/ethnic minority voicing white nationalist/anti-immigrabt/racist rhetoric.
The fact is, when you feel forced to choose between physical violence committed against you and/or your loved ones and structural oppression being enacted against the same, it's not an easy choice.
It is the goal of fascism to attempt to replace political discourse with the rhetoric of real or threatened violence, which then creates the conditions where that seems like the only available options.
People toss around the word fascism haphazardly all the time, especially online. But this is fundamentally what it means: oppress yourself and/or consent to your own oppression under threat of violence.
"It's true because a movie based on this Italian dude's possibly drug-abetted imagination taught me about DiCaprio's rabbit ancestors.
And glass fucking eyes!"
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JD Vance comes up with the amazing revelation that 19th century New York City had a lot of crime.
Is he unaware that the antagonist of that movie was a nativist?
I think he might lose the vote if the people with Irish ancestry...
... at a police association, of all places 🤦♂️
a data driven man of science
There's a hope that if you out-white the white people, maybe you'll be safe. And the extremist right loves nothing more than a self-loathing minority willing to voice the master narrative. It helps them politically and it viscerally demonstrates ideological domination over a person.
For instance, a man saying women belong in the home as breeding vessels under the domination of a man is not as powerful as a woman saying the same thing. Roughly equivalent when it's a racial/ethnic minority voicing white nationalist/anti-immigrabt/racist rhetoric.
The fact is, when you feel forced to choose between physical violence committed against you and/or your loved ones and structural oppression being enacted against the same, it's not an easy choice.
It is the goal of fascism to attempt to replace political discourse with the rhetoric of real or threatened violence, which then creates the conditions where that seems like the only available options.
People toss around the word fascism haphazardly all the time, especially online. But this is fundamentally what it means: oppress yourself and/or consent to your own oppression under threat of violence in the name of the State, which is itself directed with absolute authority by a singular or concentrated ruler or authority.
I mean he's not completely wrong. That did happen over 100 years ago. We closed Ellis Island since then. So it's kinda painfully out of date. I don't think our current immigration problem resembles that movie.
Listen, he's in the Natives gang. He's one of the good ones. Sucks off that guy with the glass eye though.
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