basquebromance
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El Paso shooter Crusius' manifesto included lots of chauvinistic boasting about his people, saying his family had been here a long time "and America is the better for it, so I claim the right to reside here by manifest destiny, for myself, my cousins and uncles and children."
He also had some nasty remarks about immigrants, saying they had "despoiled" his homeland, making it "unsafe and unlivable."
No, wait -- my mistake! That wasn't Crusius at all. He said nothing about the virtues of his own ethnic group.
I was quoting Indian immigrant Suketu Mehta's column in The Washington Post earlier this month, titled, "I Am an Uppity Immigrant. Don't Expect Me To Be 'Grateful.'" Mehta, who is -- you'd never guess! -- a professor, droned on about the superiority of his ethnic group, claiming dibs on America for his entire extended family.
Chicano university professors and student groups speak of "reconquista," claiming ownership of the entire American Southwest, which they call "Aztlan." This is based on the idea that it was once occupied by the ancient Aztecs, and Mexicans are descended from the Aztecs. (Who wouldn't want to be related to enthusiastic practitioners of human sacrifice?)
"This was our land," Armando Navarro told the Los Angeles Times in 2006, exulting at the "re-Mexicanization" of much of American territory -- or as he calls it, "Occupied Aztlan." He gloated that "a new majority is forming. Everything will change. The White House will be within our reach. We might have to change the name to the Brown House."
He also had some nasty remarks about immigrants, saying they had "despoiled" his homeland, making it "unsafe and unlivable."
No, wait -- my mistake! That wasn't Crusius at all. He said nothing about the virtues of his own ethnic group.
I was quoting Indian immigrant Suketu Mehta's column in The Washington Post earlier this month, titled, "I Am an Uppity Immigrant. Don't Expect Me To Be 'Grateful.'" Mehta, who is -- you'd never guess! -- a professor, droned on about the superiority of his ethnic group, claiming dibs on America for his entire extended family.
Chicano university professors and student groups speak of "reconquista," claiming ownership of the entire American Southwest, which they call "Aztlan." This is based on the idea that it was once occupied by the ancient Aztecs, and Mexicans are descended from the Aztecs. (Who wouldn't want to be related to enthusiastic practitioners of human sacrifice?)
"This was our land," Armando Navarro told the Los Angeles Times in 2006, exulting at the "re-Mexicanization" of much of American territory -- or as he calls it, "Occupied Aztlan." He gloated that "a new majority is forming. Everything will change. The White House will be within our reach. We might have to change the name to the Brown House."