Comments by "sharper68" (@sharper68) on "Trump Supporter Tells US Citizen "Get Out Of My Country"" video.

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  12. Michael Robertson It is conservative policy of out sourcing and devaluation of labor that is driving wages down not "third worlders".  It is a policy of attacking labor unions and setting tax policy that helps the rich and does nothing for the middle class.  The poor are getting more numerous not because of all the people with brown skin but because of a small cadre of rich clowns who have vacuumed up all grown for the last 30 years. They Saudi's have nothing to recommend them.  They are mono resource supplier who would be a empty desert without our money buying a resource they happen to sit on. Anyone can be successful when sitting on barrels of unlimited money and nothing about their economic or social policy is laudable. Anyone can be successful when all you have to do is haul oil out of the ground.   You can emigrate to Japan or S Korea and people do.  The idea these places have their borders closed is nonsense not attached to reality.  They are changing like everyone does with outside influence and that you pretend they do not is just an example of  you closing your eyes to reality you do not like. They have hung onto mono culture elements but even they have changed and are changing all be it more slowly.   Every mono culture society that is doing reasonably well only does so as a satellite to the west where we have embraced immigration.   The few  mono examples that thrive do so because they take advantage of our booming and growing societies especially the US that is at the root multi cultural.  
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  13. Michael Robertson It is the fact we get payed less and our wages have not kept up with the cost of living that is the problem.  The powers that be represented by your conservative hero's have been systematically attacking all blue collar jobs for the last 30 years and it is this attack (nothing to do with immigrants) that is the issue.  It is the policy of the people who are buying our leaders that is the problem not the poor people at the bottom of the ladder that have ALWAYS been there.  In the past our poor have always bee immigrants and at one time were Irish and Italian.  They had the same kind of problems that plague modern marginalized new communities.  This was in an era when the american dream was still alive and you did not need a duel income for families to get ahead yet we still had crime and poverty issues inside their distinct groups.  That changed as their children and grandchildren assimilated.  As the old school died off attachments to the old country and culture disappeared these people became like every other long standing american. Blaming our economic woes or the decline of the middle class on immigration is nonsense when it is very clear what the problems is and who is benefiting from it.  To ignore the rich and blame the powerless may seem sharp to you but is silly if you look at the numbers.   I said they are changing I did not say they have changed.  That 2% is up and the fact is they would be nothing without us so pointing at them as a model is not compelling.  They have a very focused immigration policy but that is changing over time and will continue to as we go forward.  That you imagine these places are going to get more insular is not well founded because that is not where the trend is going.   Many of the ex pats living in Japan have married someone with Japanese citizenship and that is a trend that will continue to grow and will see them become more diverse over time. The fact is North america is a continent of immigrants a lot of them starting off very poor. That has been a strength for us as we have drawn the most ambitious, most driven to succeed from across the planet and have reaped the rewards from that focus.  The idea we should be picking a single race to draw from is idiocy personified.   Your bullshit fear mongering about immigrants is as old as time.  We know how this turns out, what happens is second and certainly third generation immigrants become pretty much indistinguishable from locals in spite skin color.  They are educated in our schools, consume our culture and become one of us. The idea they are always apart is only true in your mind because of your focused bigotry that can not get past any superficial and basic cultural difference.   
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  15. Michael Robertson Here in the US or in Canada are good examples. There are fully integrated communities in these where the members are fully integrated and their grand children will be even more so. That you do not know of this community is not surprising but does not validate you.  Muslims have been in america since the founding hold jobs in every field at every level of education.   Just open your fucking eyes and your bullshit spin falls apart.   The proof is in the fact there are millions of expats among even in the most mono culture counties in the first world.  It was not long ago those numbers were a fraction of what they are now.  With the declining local population these countries will have no choice but to embrace immigration in the next 20 to 30 years to keep their labor force intact.  It is not a matter of if but when and no amount of myopic denial changes that.  Everyone is like everyone else with minor cultural differences that become irrelevant over a couple generations as history has repeatedly shown.  Education, opportunity and access to the larger world is a great equalizer and no race has a monopoly on success all factors equal.  Racist logic = that is the way it was so that is only way it can be.  Your simplistic myopic spin sits on the trash heap of history for a reason. Being a xenophobe has not served humanity except as a tool of division for centuries.  I call bigots bigots when they earn it with idiot spin. The evidence has never backed you.  You are not acting on evidence but instead base your spin on a lizard brain reaction exacerbated by your ignorance.  It is a fact that the countries who are the most diverse also happen to be among the best most desirable places on the planet to live, that is no coincidence.  
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  16. Michael Robertson 99.6 is a bullshit number that is only going down not up.  The Japanese population census asks the people's nationality not their ethnic background. It is common for people to mistake nationality for ethnicity and conclude that Japan is largely ethnically homogenous. It would be more accurate to state that the population is "multi-ethnic," although the percentage of ethnic minorities is small compared with the numbers in the UK, the USA, and Canada. They are changing and they are more diverse than they were even two decades ago.   They are not becoming more insular they becoming less so and that trend will continue.   In the long run they will have no choice their birth rates can not sustain their civilization eternally.  I have no doubt they are xenophobic but the fact is I do not see them as the model for anything.  Their culture is slowly imploding in on itself with declining birth rates and a trends that are unhealthy for the long term survival of any society.  They will change or fade in this new modern world, the status quo will not eternally serve them. You have not produced evidence you have given me spin that is better explained in other ways or mitigated by context. That there are xenophobes does not mean they have it right or are on a healthy path that serves them or their country. Racism sits on the back of ignorance and always has. Trying to pretend you are high minded and that I hold the simpleton position is weak shit that has no merit.  The most uneducated insular and backward people universally agree with you and the educated, experienced and well traveled disagree.  I will take the later group and leave you to look backwards as the world marches on without you. Stop using numbers like 99.9% they make you look stupid.  Let go of the bullshit straw man about liberal guilt as I really have NOTHING to feel guilty about while you actually do. That you do not feel guilty for being a hate laden ass hat is your failure and that you imagine I ashamed of your actions is just you projecting your burden onto me.   I have said this before and will say it again, the genie is not going back in the bottle and being a racist useless except as a crutch to boost your own failing self esteem.  Whine and cry as we are never going back to the bullshit you push the world is too small and your spin can not be reconciled in the long term in a modern world.  We have nothing to learn from xenophobes while they do have a great deal to learn from us.  
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