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Trump: Minnesota has "suffered enough" from Somalian refugees
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parrotbeak
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Actually I was referring to the blatant anti-Muslim lies being spread here but ok.
Hillary is so adorable
Two of its best friends were mods.
GameAddict411
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Two more days of this crap. Just two more.
HiredN00bs
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Listen to this, folks. Terrifying stuff.
Yeah, sorry to break your bubble but this won't be over. The racist motherfuckers and all the fucking deplorables that trump enpowered won't dissapear just like that.
Acceptance is a key virtue of conservatism, don't you know? They accept racists, sexists, homophobes... why can't liberals be as accepting?
Gordon Shumway
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Ah..those great crusaders..
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Damn, this is starting to resemble a EuroGAF Roma thread.
Apologies but not in my experience sorry, rather have been told. I have heard from many different individuals from different ethics groups, as a group they are very difficult. I live in a very mixed ethic town. I have had no experience of that myself personally but it's the general complaint I have heard observed when taking to say taxi drivers or pressure on the street etc.
I realise this could actually pertain to any individual regardless of skin colour but the observation came from people who were either Roma or Jamaican. I don't know if there is some sort of ingroup /outgroups things going on. I'm just saying what I've been told.
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Somali immigrants are like any other community. Vast majority are model citizens, in every society they enter, and like all other communities, you have your bad apples.
Why are you passing on hearsay racism? Beyond the fact you say you have no experience with Somali, Somali aren't a monolithic block anymore than any other ethnic group. Suggesting that an entire ethnicity is "very difficult" on the basis of hearsay is just propagating that sort of racism.
I worked with both Somali and Sudanese refugees for years. Some were lazy, some worked harder than a mother fucker. Some were honest, some were dishonest. What I couldn't help but notice was that regardless of their birth place, they were very different people, just like all the people born here are very different people.
FreeMufasa
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A Link to the Past
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How dare you call Hillary a dog
It sounds like a football team, of racists
Curious, what is your response if you heard a lot of friends talk about how black people are in general unintelligent, aggressive, and criminal? Would you assume that maybe, the people who make these claims are racist rather than there being a justifiable reason to make blanket generalizations? If so, what makes it different for Somali-Americans? What's the variable that exists in Somali immigrants that does not exist in the black community?
These cowards always take their rage out on women
Seriously, it's always the women who get this shit the worst. I'm guessing it's because they see them as easier targets.
DontBeThatGuy
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Damn.
She's been called Hilldog for years though?
I have never actually sat and thought about it. But as you say. Yes it's hearsay, but still I can only take it on face value. There is a reason they talked like that. To be honest, I actually don't make a judgement, I listen, say good day and get on with my life. It's only times like this (this post) that it comes to mind and I exchange what I've been told. But on the whole, yes I completely agree with you.
Sunster
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chaobreaker
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We can be the most model of citizens and these people will still never accept us. We will always be treated as the dangerous other in these communities.
I can take solace in the fact that the racist fucks Trump and the GOP desperately court to will never get what they want. With every election, they will helplessly watch as they get exponentially outvoted by the people they hate. They can go ahead and be the disenfranchised losers they are and let the world go past them.
Just one more day left of this nonsense.
I can take solace in the fact that the racist fucks Trump and the GOP desperately court to will never get what they want. With every election, they will helplessly watch as they get exponentially outvoted by the people they hate. They can go ahead and be the disenfranchised losers they are and let the world go past them.
Just one more day left of this nonsense.
A day more before it is repudiated by the electoral system, but don't get too comfortable with the idea that it's all going to suddenly disappear. Bigots won't give up that easy.
Monocle
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Oh yeah, then why do we observe Thanksgiving, the holiday where we mourn the ruthless invasion of 1492, where wicked Native Americans sailed from the UK to wage a war of spite on white people here in the US?
I am so sorry...
chaobreaker
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God, I cringe every time I see that nickname.
You should just let Zelda Scott teach you how to get jiggy with it, my homely slice of dog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441yNVdmVU4
Boo-yaw.
biggersmaller
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My wife teaches a Somali population of 2nd graders in a tough but improving Minneapolis school. Every Somali immigrant I've spoken with are grateful for this country and are busting their ass to make it as Americans. FUCK. HIM.
Also, he is missing the mark even with his own biggoted target voting block. He should've went the "law and order" pro-Police route.
Many racist people I've come into contact with will talk shit all over north Minneapolis and the "lazy" and "violent" African American community there, but very few ridicule the African immigrant community living in Riverside Plaza on the East Side, as they have a reputation amongst the bigoted for "starting businesses" and "getting jobs." This is even in the light of 30 Minnesotan's having left to join ISIS, because the Somali community continues to publically denounce their actions. Also, the Somali community is notoriously socially conservative and although Riverside votes solid blue now, I could possibly see it turned if the Republicans didn't send an idiot like Trump to salt the Earth for generations to come.
Also, he is missing the mark even with his own biggoted target voting block. He should've went the "law and order" pro-Police route.
Many racist people I've come into contact with will talk shit all over north Minneapolis and the "lazy" and "violent" African American community there, but very few ridicule the African immigrant community living in Riverside Plaza on the East Side, as they have a reputation amongst the bigoted for "starting businesses" and "getting jobs." This is even in the light of 30 Minnesotan's having left to join ISIS, because the Somali community continues to publically denounce their actions. Also, the Somali community is notoriously socially conservative and although Riverside votes solid blue now, I could possibly see it turned if the Republicans didn't send an idiot like Trump to salt the Earth for generations to come.
What did you mean by this?
DragonSworne
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Perhaps automation of the workforce?
Gordon Shumway
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Oh, you know!!!!!!!!
AyaisMUsikWhore
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When will GAF learn not to entertain trolls....smh. After his first post, yall should of catched the drift. These people probably come from different websites with the bet that they can come into a gaf thread, and say a ridiculous statement and rile + derail the entire thread because we fall for it so easily. Come on guys 
Trump is an absolute mess for his statement but what's new. It's so great to hear that these refugees are actually making the city better by adding these so called jobs that all the citizens there for all those years failed to do but now want to blame the people who want to make the best of their lives for doing exactly that. There was this great minidoc in YouTube via fusion that focused on Trump Supporters and one of the guys on their blamed all his misfortunes on minorities taking jobs away from him because the place he used to work at got outsourced.... It's like.... Wtf!?
Trump is an absolute mess for his statement but what's new. It's so great to hear that these refugees are actually making the city better by adding these so called jobs that all the citizens there for all those years failed to do but now want to blame the people who want to make the best of their lives for doing exactly that. There was this great minidoc in YouTube via fusion that focused on Trump Supporters and one of the guys on their blamed all his misfortunes on minorities taking jobs away from him because the place he used to work at got outsourced.... It's like.... Wtf!?
CadetMahoney
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parrotbeak
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What they posted is kinda the point of the thread though. That was the racism that Trump is supporting.When will GAF learn not to entertain trolls....smh. After his first post, yall should of catched the drift. These people probably come from different websites with the bet that they can come into a gaf thread, and say a ridiculous statement and rile + derail the entire thread because we fall for it so easily. Come on guys
AyaisMUsikWhore
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Yeah but it became trolling and it wasn't hard to see. When people are being willingfully obtuse, disengage and move on with the discussion. It's not productive anymore and it's clear the person is trying to rile. Even if that person is a racist shit bag, how much quoting over and over is going to change that.. It's kind of the point of ignoring them and not giving them air. And like it said, it's likely someone from those subreddits who make these fake accounts on GAF just for the sole purpose of doing this. Its seems to happen all the time in these threads. I mean, the link he posted was jihadwatch.org.... That alone was already..
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....lost cause. Then again I'm not a mod so I can't really tell anyone what to do but it's disappointing to see in threads like this.
I'd imagine that by having the largest Somali community in the US, a very strong support network has formed around it , which places their interests as a priority obviously. So people outside of this network that are still vulnerable in some way don't have such an extensive network to depend on and influence. So one could view how the whole wave of Somali immigration has impacted one's family access to services that they think would have or feel entitled to access.
This would be discrimination but not necessarily racism, even if it's likely to have racist attitudes permeate and affect one's perception and judgement
Omegasquash
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Donald Trump, you are the embodiment of what we, as Americans, should stand against.
It's been quoted up and down during this election, and while I've hesitated traditionally to use it, I find that it fits well here, in particular.
Donald Trump, you do not represent America. You have made a fortune on the labor of people who's backs you have dug your heels into. You have knowingly lied, on multiple accounts, to your would-be constituency, and you have driven a wedge deeper between the people of the United States. You have pinned blame on peoples that seek simply to pursue better opportunity for themselves and their children, in a nation that purports to provide just that.
I sincerely hope that you lose this election, and that you never, ever return to the public spotlight. I hope that your name is used in history books to teach our children of what a would be, power-hungry despot is. And I sincerely hope that the rest of the world shuns you as much as you seek to shun them.
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It's been quoted up and down during this election, and while I've hesitated traditionally to use it, I find that it fits well here, in particular.
Donald Trump, you do not represent America. You have made a fortune on the labor of people who's backs you have dug your heels into. You have knowingly lied, on multiple accounts, to your would-be constituency, and you have driven a wedge deeper between the people of the United States. You have pinned blame on peoples that seek simply to pursue better opportunity for themselves and their children, in a nation that purports to provide just that.
I sincerely hope that you lose this election, and that you never, ever return to the public spotlight. I hope that your name is used in history books to teach our children of what a would be, power-hungry despot is. And I sincerely hope that the rest of the world shuns you as much as you seek to shun them.
Sorry for the bump.
MN officially so sick of suffering from the Somali community that Minneapolis elected the first ever Somali American lawmaker. .
http://www.fox9.com/news/216313577-story
MN officially so sick of suffering from the Somali community that Minneapolis elected the first ever Somali American lawmaker. .
http://www.fox9.com/news/216313577-story
Good news. I thought I'd regret opening this, at first. As a Somali person, some of this thread was really just upsetting. Feel good, though. Thanks for that. Clearly a necessary thing.
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