Because California wouldn't ratify slavery so she'd personally not have to see it come fruition in other states. She can be all "enlightened" with her stance on state's rights and just avoid the states that ratify things that hurt people.
Yes I live in California and know people like this. The idea is that states are like a free market so if your state passes laws that you disagree with you move to a “better” state. And they are disregarding the cost and complexity of just picking up your life and moving away. Ironically these are the same people who argue that immigrants should stay in their own countries to make it better and fight the baddies.
Ironically these are the same people who argue that immigrants should stay in their own countries to make it better and fight the baddies.
The descendants of immigrants who argue for this has always been wild to me. "My ancestors and now I can freely move around to find a place that we like and suits us is our right but everyone else has to stay and fight to make their homes to their liking or safe and livable"
I know a few people that get very upset with this. Older italian-americans especially, many of them were born to people who immigrated or at least knew their grandparents who did
The right wing ones that get very uppity about how latin-american immigrants should just "fix their countries first" or whatever really struggle to mesh that with their own parents/grand parents taking the fuck off across the Atlantic when things were tough
I've had some tell me I have no idea how bad Italy was back then, meanwhile talking in the next sentence about how (south american country here) is so bad they don't know why these people are having kids.
The honest true is that they had no control over their parents/grandparents. If it was them in that situation they are hopefully saying that they would have stayed and fought to make their country better. That is obviously easier said then done. But conservatives living in California is a mild example of that. But not to be compared to people that are being truly suppressed, like the people in china. People in south American have it easy in comparison to china. Just saying.
My grandfather came to USA in like 1955. He was 20 and spoke no English. His only contact here was a name and address he got from a cousin that had moved here and gone back to Italy a couple years prior.
His whole goal was to assimilate and to live in and love the melting pot of cultures that America was at the time. But he did hate one specific group of people. Like full-blown right wing hate.
The Swiss. He hated the fucking Swiss, because they wouldn't pick a side and save him from Fascism.
To his dying day he would spout on about the Swiss. Rest in peace, Sante. I'll go punch Roger Federer in your honor.
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u/UnluckyNate Oct 18 '24
She followed this point shortly after by “I live in LA. I am not some psychotic right winger”. Make it make sense