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View submission: Dallas City Hall Protest and March
Not all Americans are nativist or isolationist, and many understand immigrants having pride for where their families come from. But you’re right “most” may be reactionary/small-minded nationalists spooked by foreign flags.
Comment by kingjevin at 03/02/2025 at 23:28 UTC
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But not enough pride that they go back to the country
Comment by tmc00138 at 04/02/2025 at 01:30 UTC
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See, here's the thing. The protest is supposed to be in response to aggressive deportations of illegal immigrants. Yes, protests in high-profile moments tend to draw in others who are glomming onto the energy -- hence the Communist, the Luigi kids, the skinny little dude in a ninja costume with "ANTIFA" scrawled on the back -- but this one's supposed to be against deportations of illegal immigrants.
So why is Mexican heritage being deployed to protest deportations of illegal immigrants, especially so prominently? There's no indication that the deportations actually are disproportionately targeting Mexican immigrants -- the arrests so far have included people from all over the world, and if anything it seems that Venezuelans and Colombians have been over-represented. If the idea is that the Mexican flag is supposed to stand for all Latinos, then it runs up against the fact that about 80% of illegal immigrants are Latinos -- so one would expect most of the arrestees to be Latino -- and that about 40% of Latinos support deportation of all illegal immigrants.
So it really seems as if a lot -- not all, but a lot -- of the motivation for asserting Mexican heritage to this degree has to do with simple culturally-based political aggression (as in the accusations about 'stolen land,' which supposedly somehow belongs to the illegal immigrants). And it looks like that to a lot of reasonable people who are definitely not "small-minded nationalists." So yes, a lot of the complaints about protesters flying the Mexican flag might not be well thought-out, but they're actually responding fairly to a real thing.
Comment by Pure-Anything-585 at 04/02/2025 at 07:07 UTC
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Spooked by foreign flags and confused why you'd show pride for a country you left are not the same thing.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2025 at 22:36 UTC
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