Not everyone thinks this, but I know an extreme right-winger who thinks this. He is also a conspiracy theorist who thinks non-white people are out to get white people so, yeah, odd.

Not every immigrant is illegal or bad. I know a girl who didn’t speak English for 3 years when her family legally immigrated, so of course she’s been told this.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    83·
    14 hours ago

    someone called my Ukrainian coworker a wetback.

    i just… want you to think about that and what it says about how dumb bigots are

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      39·
      14 hours ago

      I feel both superior and stupid at the same time in this moment. I don’t know what a “wetback” is. Based on context I’m going to guess it’s some kind of racist remark that doesn’t apply to Ukrainains. But for the life of me, I can’t think of what it would even be saying.

      So I feel stupid for not knowing…but also like I’m probably the better person for NOT knowing.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          14·
          12 hours ago

          A thousand guesses, and I would have eventually landed on it being against Latinos (necause there’s only so many races). But I never would have correctly guessed the Rio Grande part.

          That’s some very very specific racism right there.

          • atro_city@fedia.io
            12·
            9 hours ago

            Biologically, there are no multiple human races. There is a single human species. Socially, there are an infinite number of races.

            The concept of race is foundational to racism, the belief that humans can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.

            wiki

            The use of races to distinguish people socially is playing right into the racists’ playbook by forcing you to play on their turf, where reason is out of the window.

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        13 hours ago

        Unfortunately I’m familiar with the term. It refers to Latin people immigrating into the U.S. without documentation by swimming across the Rio Grande river which forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.world
      4·
      13 hours ago

      So… looking at the context and the intent, is it pure racism even if they didn’t come up from the south? It’s bigoted, I guess?