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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

 

Unlike most countries in the world, the United States of America is not an ethno-state.  Japan is a nation because that's where the Japanese live.  Ireland is a nation because that's where the Irish live.  Germany is a nation because that's where the Germans live (at least, it's where they live now after they all got kicked out of Czechia, Poland, and elsewhere after WWII).  But the United States of America is different.  It's not a nation because it's where some people called the "Americans" live; it's a nation because a bunch of white Europeans committed genocide on an entire continent of Native American peoples. Then have spent the last few hundred years lying about it and pretending it didnt happen. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

So I'm on board with the general concept that cultural purity as a concept is rubbish . . . with one big caveat: philosophy.

Unlike most countries in the world, the United States of America is not an ethno-state.  Japan is a nation because that's where the Japanese live.  Ireland is a nation because that's where the Irish live.  Germany is a nation because that's where the Germans live (at least, it's where they live now after they all got kicked out of Czechia, Poland, and elsewhere after WWII).  But the United States of America is different.  It's not a nation because it's where some people called the "Americans" live; it's a nation because that's where a group of people set up a government based on certain self-evident truths, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  The United States is not an ethno-state; it's an ideological state.  And it has been from its foundation.

So when the Cubans come in and bring their hot women and their delicious sandwiches and their rockin' music and their curious take on language and their questionable taste in fashion, it doesn't threaten the foundations of the United States.  Because the United States is not an ethno-state.  It doesn't matter whether we're eating hot dish or Cuban sandwiches or pizza or listening to R&B or salsa or country music.  It only matters that we broadly agree on the basic rights and liberties and obligations enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

So when the Cubans also bring along their love of fascism and try to re-establish the Bautista dictatorship here, then I do object.  And I do have a problem with the importation of that bit of their culture.  And if they are unwilling to adopt our culture on those points and want to import their own ideosyncratic culture of kleptocratic fascism, then I think they absolutely should fuck all the way off and be deported.

I single out the Cubans on this because that's whom the post I'm quoting is about, but that goes for any nationality.  Russians who think Putinism ought to be emulated here; Arabs who think a North American caliphate would be a splendid idea; Chileans who come here thinking we ought to have an American equivalent of the Pinochet dictatorship; or a certain Persian who thinks she shah was just great and we ought to import the absolute monarchy of pre-revolution Iran to the United States--fuck all of them.

Got damn this reminds me.  I had the best Cuban sandwich I've ever had two weekends ago at the campus hotel on the Aggy campus...of all places.  Fresh pulled pork plus all the usual fixings.  Honestly considering roadtripping back for lunch today.  



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