racist email sent by (the shame) my best friend

[ProgressiveFool]

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table ... everywhere!

Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.

And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like it used to be ... quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let's see .

Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.

Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because
over half the class doesn't speak English.

Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one' to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other
than ' Old Glory ' are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.

Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

If you agree, pass it on; if not, continue cleaning up the poop!

And my reply (all):

You moron, you answered your own question already. Take down the feeders, i.e. the companies employing them, and they all go away.

Scapegoating and persecuting the illegals for doing the same thing you'd do if the situations were reversed is not only cruel, it's ineffective. Why spend billions targeting hundreds of thousands of individuals, when you could have the same effect going after the much smaller numbers of companies employing them? If there's no work here, there's nothing to keep them here.

Until I hear people like you get serious about going after the businesses exploiting illegal labor, I'll continue to assume you're using the issue to indulge your own racism.

[jgraz]

1. Wow, would that be your *former* best friend?

:wow:

[ProgressiveFool]

3. I haven't given up hope yet

My own brother is often the same, so I can't very well disown the one without disowning the other. In other respects, they're both decent people.

It's tough here in Orange County sometimes!

[zanne]

2. That's a right wing Libertarian tune. nt

[NNN0LHI]

4. Your friend is an ignorant shithead n/t

[RedStateShame]

5. How rich is the part "and people waving flags other than ' Old Glory ' are squawking..."

It makes me feel like responding, "Yeah, when are we going to kick those Confederate insurgents out of our nation's southern region?"

[unpossibles]

12. haha... no shit

that's different though... it's about southern heritage and all that..

:eyes:

[EFerrari]

6. That's so funny. That's how I feel about Republicans.

lol

[ellenfl]

7. well done! my stand exactly . . . but you won't hear the

anti-immigrant demagogues going after the corporations. they ARE the corporations. imo, this is all a red herring to distract people from their pocketbook issues. it will all go away after the election.

ellen fl

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Excellent answer!

If Americans wouldn't hire illegals there wouldn't be a problem.

[Cant trust em]

10. and if Mexico had a better economy

they wouldn't be coming here in the first place.

[Cant trust em]

9. They have a point until they start talking about the "bilingual box"

It’s perfectly fair to talk about the resources we have, who pays for them and who benefits from them. Those are questions worth asking. But these rants lose traction when they add in the racist overtones. When that gets added I can see that it’s not the expense of the immigrants that is at issue, it’s simply the fact that they don’t want people of different cultures here in the first place. It's not the ER wait times, it's the fact that some people don't like Mexicans.

If there’s anything I’ve learned when discussing issues with people it’s that it’s best to stick to the topic at hand and not to digress. When other things come in besides the central point you give the opportunity to attack the sidebar and thus discredit the entire argument.

[NotGivingUp]

11. Very good response. Hopefully, he/she will take a moment to think

about it and see that it's right.

[KG]

13. funny, i've never had the birds in my yard act like that over my feeders.

more whiney BS by those poor, put-upon white people. :eyes:

[Forrest Greene]

14. I'll Bet They Were All

...blackbirds, weren't they? Maybe some crows?