Vance and Mamdani are equal citizens under the law, but the vice president seems to believe that his heritage entitles him to speak in ways that Mamdani can’t. There are tiers of belonging, according to Vance, one for those who can trace their lineage to one of the nation’s two founding revolutions and another for those who can’t.
For Vance, this is something close to common sense. And for some Americans it was, before the Civil War.
People who are overly proud of their heritage often have little to be proud of in their life.
Dude just say its because you’re white
For Vance, this is simply unacceptable. “I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War,” he said, “have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong.”
How’s this for a radical point of view:
I think people whose ancestors fought for the wrong side in the Civil War have a lot less claim over America than the people who become citizens after the Civil War.
think people whose ancestors fought for the wrong side in the Civil War have a lot less claim over America than the people who become citizens after the Civil War.
I think the people who celebrate that their ancestors fought for the wrong side of the civil war have less claim on what America is and what is stands for.
Discriminating against people based solely on their relatives is unamerican. Punishing the sin for the sins of the father is a shitty philosophy.
So a couch fucker thinks he’s superior because of his hillbilly heritage?
Because his skin is white. I really wonder what his wife and kids think about these views
Absolutely. My ancestors lived in what in now the US for millennia. Magat Coulter said whitey didn’t commit a violent enough genocide. In my experience, “I was here first” bullshit always breaks down to “I am white.”
Fuck this clickbait title.
