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Originally Posted by pbradley
One of my best friends is an illegal immigrant and half of my friends are Mexican. It is a personal insult to assume that I don't consider them Americans and is a flagrant distortion of my argument to suggest that I do. But I suppose it isn't shocking of SuchFriends to engage in that level of intellectual dishonesty in order to perpetuate his dogmatic liberal sociological-centric interpretation. I knew I would regret taking him off of my ignore list.
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Listen, I was not criticising your own racial sensitivities, nor calling you a racist, nor even making any kind of personal assessments of you own character, though you should know, the whole "i'm not racist my best friend is such-and-such" is a kind of cliche defense..
I was simply attacking your silly argument that
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Originally Posted by pbradley
Apart from the Mexican–American War, hispanics played very little role in the foundation of the United States of America.
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You have been arguing that because Mexican-Americans were not a part of the colonial "founding fathers" they play a limited role in the foundation of the US. But I disagree, if Mexican-Americans are in fact Americans, which we both obviously agree, then my argument is that THEIR experience is as EQUALLY formative and a part of the FOUNDATION of America as George Washington, because they are equally Americans and their experience is equally significant and formative of the over-all American experience.
I never made any assumptions about your own interpretation of people as americans, rather your assumption that america was only founded in 1776.
and I misunderstood your joke
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Originally Posted by pbradley
Ha ha, "you'll find mexicans are americans as well."
Wow, fuck off.
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though the fuck off part was rather obvious.