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Originally Posted by clarknova
IMHO, it's a tragic shame that you feel unashamed. On the other hand, if someone had said that to your ancestors when they immigrated here, I wouldn't have had to tell you this.
Maybe you have a point. If only I could time travel and keep those lousy Puritans from being kicked out of England, they wouldn't have brought their crazy religious beliefs to this land, and wouldn't have brought all those other crazy/poor Europeans with them.
I'd probably be Roman Catholic now, but that's a small price to pay to have some extended personal space in this here elevator.
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You are continuing to make the exact same fallacious argument I was arguing against-- just because something happened one way, at one time, in one set of circumstances--
does not mean that circumstances never change. Rules that worked fine when this country was wide-open spaces with the majority of the natives safely genocided away do no necessary apply to a country that is crowded (the population of the whole Earth
should be below the current population of the US) and in a state of economic collapse. I feel no obligation whatsoever that we should invite into the US everyone who has the slightest desire to be here-- and what people did 200 years ago is irrelevant.