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  • stephen@lazysoci.altoWikipedia@lemmy.worldSlum tourism
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    9 days ago

    The evangelical church had me do week long “mission trips” as a teenager to poor places all over the world. I was told I’d be helping “build a school”. I guess that thousand dollar round trip plane ticket to get an unskilled teenager to do shitty construction work made more sense than just cutting those people a check to hire local skilled labor. Anyway - it was poverty tourism dressed up.















  • stephen@lazysoci.altoQuotes@lemmy.caTeddy
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    In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. -Theodore Roosevelt

    He’ll be a mixed bag for the MAGAts.