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Tizo's avatar

Excellent essay yet again, Kulak.

I'm old and used to be one of those "progressive" types. I semi-retired early once the kids were grown and moved "home" to Albuquerque, NM.

While ABQ is no India, I soon understood why my father called the population "those people" and moved us to a tiny town 1,000 miles away.

A few years of living in my lovely house next door to full-on cartel-linked "immigrants" I understood that my father hadn't been merely "racist". Instead, I learned, mentally grew, and eventually fled knowing otherwise I'd go to prison or be killed.

You may get much hate from white people who live in NE hamlet's and still listen to the soothing voices of NPR. So be it. The truth of the world is far dirtier than they can understand until they experience it.

You are doing great work!

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Persimmons's avatar

Many have remarked on the incredibly arrogant attitude of (relatively) wealthy Indians, how they tend to treat everyone else as being subhuman. Makes sense when you understand the visceral experience of human squalor and filth they've lived through. The evidence for the value of their caste system stares them in the face every time they walk down the street.

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