Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
I like a diversity speech as long as it is by a cis white man!
Last edited by PC2; 2016-07-05 at 06:20 PM.
It is a good basis for populist rhetoric though!
Already happened!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3m5...ature=youtu.be
Sure our country has a shit ton of problems, but there are worse places to live out there. What I love about this country is how accepting it's people are to foreigners who come over legally and want to love this country. We generally open our arms up. I go to college and find people of all races and walks of life. African americans, hispanics, asians, middle easterns. What I can't stand is countries that are mean to us just because we're american. Ignorant or not about the rest of the world. You gotta respect our openess to legal foreign travelers.
fyi: What other countries besides us have a high diversity rate in it's people? I know Canada is but that's right above us.
Of course melting pot is real. What I find wrong is the assumption that either you have melted in that pot, or you haven't even stepped in it and, hence, haven't assimilated. There are many in-betweens. And the pot itself is much more complex than people like Orlong imply.
I just don't understand the thousands upon thousands who have such a hard time with this concept. I've always said it: world peace is fantastically easy. All you have to do is not hate people.
But no.
We get hateful cunts who do harm, whether physical or not, to other people over the very things John Cena was talking about: different cultures and races.
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I think he's refering to the period after the colonial days when the immigrants came in massive waves in the 1840s. My family traces its roots back to German/Dutch/Danish and French immigrants who came in around the 1840s and settled somewhere in the mid west (where most of my family is now from.) Thus, I did not arrive via colonial settlers, but by immigration. Granted, this is 6-7 generations back.
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The problem with this is, even one hateful and persuasive person has a potential to have a whole nation join them in hate. And out of millions people, there will always be that one, gaining followers and spreading influence.
Love is easy. But... The temptation of the Dark Side is strong.