If you gently scratch any American intellectual, there is almost always a MAGA hat underneath screaming "Go back to your country!"
What is it about immigrants' voicing opinions that sets you off, people?
What is it about immigrants' voicing opinions that sets you off, people?
I get it that folks get defensive about their country, even the things they themselves criticize, when foreigners do it. But these are immigrants, people who are American by choice! Why aren't they entitled to join the discourse? Is it exclusively for the vaginal visa holders?
Do you seriously expect us to come here, build your railroads, fight your Civil Wars, make your pizzas, develop your theories of relativity, bomb your Cambodias and launch your Googles, all while being meekly quiet and leaving all the opinioning to you, the exalted birthrighters?
Just because I didn't grow up watching Sesame Street and eating peanut butter doesn't mean I don't understand America and can't join the conversation on the same terms as anyone else, without being screamed to go back to "my country" every time I say something you don't like.
Why this assumption that our opinions must necessarily be defined by our "foreignness", by our wanting to turn America into what we have abandodned? Don't search the genesis of my views in my ethnicity. I don't vote for Democrats because I pine for Soviet socialism.
No, you are not entitled to my gratitude. You didn't welcome me here. We are both here because of what this nation is.
No, I won't go back. I choose to live here, to love baseball caps and hate apple pie, and I'll defend my right to this to the death. As all Americans should.
No, I won't go back. I choose to live here, to love baseball caps and hate apple pie, and I'll defend my right to this to the death. As all Americans should.
