I'm not normally subtle, but I'm glad you got it without me having to spell it out.
I'm probably only half as stupid as you think I am.
Yep. Political nihilism is supremely lazy. You're uninformed, clearly not interested in trying to become informed. Yet you want to be heard as if your non-opinion deserves any attention at all. It doesn't. I
This is just more judgemental bullshit. It barely deserves a response.
Virtue signaling. Unless you're actually doing something for immigration (other than warming synapses between your ears), what you really are is "Not Opposed to Immigration" which is a null position. It's basically nothing.
Slow down. This is called putting words in somebody's mouth. It's part twisting what was said and part gaslighting. I intend to correct you for it and pretty much stomp what you said flat dead. Basically, your unable to accept that I am not against what you believe I must be against because you have been indoctrinated to believe and need to turn it around because I believe somewhat differently about some things than you do. You need to be able to attack it. So you've changed it into something else, and even went so far as to overstep and tell me what I think.
Because I'm in the middle of things, there's a lot of stuff I have no opinion on. Sometimes, my opinion swings completely to the left or right though. Sometimes my opinion is one that criticizes both sides. Sometimes it is apathetic or pessimistic.
As far as migration in concerned it probably swings to the left harder than yours. I've worked with a lot of Spanish speakers over the years and I consider the experience to be very positive. Some spoke English fluently, some struggled with proficiency and understanding, some barely, and some not at all. Most of them were hard workers, though. Especially, the ones who hadn't completed the immigration process. They traveled a long way, to a foreign land, because they believed it was worth it. English is not easy for Spanish speakers to learn. It's full of idiotic expressions and words that can mean just about anything. Imagine going to a new place and struggling to work in a new language and struggling to make ends meet. They don't travel north because they are lazy. They come because they are driven, motivated, and hellbent on making it. I admire this greatly and have found it to be very inspiring and humbling.
There have often communication barriers and sometimes I was the odd one out. Some of them were quick learners and caught on to English very quickly and I really liked how our mixed conversations evolved as we learned how to better communicate. They've never made fun of me for attempting to speak Spanish with them, I can barely roll an R, and often correct me nicely when I use a word wrong or out of context so I could learn. More than that, though. They were willing to put in a lot of hours of hard work. 14 hour days aren't shit to them. They want the money and the work and are often very determined to make it.
Am I actively doing anything to help them? No. But I hope that the people I've tried to talk to who tried to refuse to speak to me because they were scared to speak and mess up saw that it didn't matter to me if they used correct grammar and didn't care if I made a mistake. Some of the guys were so used to people getting annoyed with them that they didn't even want to try to learn or talk. I hope I made an impact on the people I interacted with. I used to get mad at the hospital security guards when they won't let them in, cause sometimes they couldn't explain why they were there or what they needed to do. But they knew how to do it.
They weren't hateful. They never complained or whined about work. They'd stop and help you if you were struggling to get something done. Have you ever heard about how music transcends language barriers? Well, so does work.
I wish I could speak better Spanish. I have no issue with this becoming a thing that I need to learn. I'm pro-immigration because I like the people I've met and befriended and worked with and thing that anybody would wants to come north should be allowed to. I think countries which don't allow immigration should be shunned by those that do. I want people to come here, to cross invisible lines drawn on maps, and succeed.
Next time you want to tell me what I think, reconsider it. You might be very wrong and end up looking like a judgemental. I might have several paragraphs to say about it. I can be a long-winded bitch sometimes.
Everything I experienced working with people who immigrated from another place, in this case, mostly Mexico, has been an overwhelming and extremely positive experience I wouldn't trade, as it taught me a lot about people that I couldn't have learned otherwise.
Should I keep going? This is one of those topics that irks the ever-loving shit out of me. I fucking loath how ignorant fucks treat immigrants and fully support them coming to where I live and working alongside me.
Probably this isn't good enough for you. Feel free to try to twist it around. It's a close second to the Ukrainian war. I can go on and on and on. And it's like I said, I might only be half as stupid as you think I am.
