Weird beyond comprehension.

[yella_dawg]

Mom forwarded a letter her brother received from their mutual half-brother.

The original letter, from Mom's half-brother Joel in Houston, is a vile screed raving against, as far as I could tell, everyone in the US who can't trace their heritage back three generations in the US and then to Europe. With extra points for blue eyes and blonde hair.

The tone of the letter leads me to believe Uncle Joel is just echoing the bombast of some radio babble-mouth who would make Prince Rush the Limp blush and backpedal.

We're talking vile here. And it just goes on and on, for two pages single-spaced. The chief target of his rage is "wetbacks" who are flooding into the US from Mexico and displacing decent Americans.


Uncle Joel's mother was a peasant girl from Central Mexico Granddad met her when he was running coastal freighters for the Merchant Marine back in the forties.

Uncle Joel is dark, with black hair and a pronounced accent. His dad married a Mexican national. His sister (my Mom) married a full-blood Native American. I get the feeling none of this even touched his awareness.


The Kool-Aid is pouring in Houston.

[Salviati]

1. And some doubt that the term brainwashing is apropriate...

If this ain't brainwashing I don't know what is...

[Lindsay]

4. I dunno...hard to brainwash somebody who

apparently doesn't have a brain.

;)

[FreedomAngel82]

6. All the more for it to work

People who aren't freethinkers are easily brainwashed. Look at the freepers.

[rumpel]

2. He must also be watching CNN Lou Dobbs with the constant rant on

illegal immigration now for weeks.

[xray s]

3. Consistency and logic is not a fascist trait

I mean, this guy killed millions in the quest to establish a perfect blue-eyed blonde race...

[Maple]

8. I never thought of that before!

Good point!

[babylonsister]

5. Just curious; does Uncle Joel go to church? nt

[yella_dawg]

7. He was raised Jehovah's Witness

I have no clue what his religious leanings are now.

(Granddad was atheist. I think my step-grandma went wacko partially in an attempt to aggravate him.)

[babylonsister]

9. I find it odd that border security has become

such a dividing issue when there are so many other things to be p.o.ed about. Hello, can you spell unjustified war?? I had an experience with my nice (religious) neighbor who has a husband suffering from a brain tumor. She asked me what my bumper sticker said, my reply was, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." She claimed she too was outraged, admitted she voted for the shrub, but claimed she's really angry about the illegals getting across the border. :wtf: Here she sits with a husband who is very ill; I calmly told her one of the main things I'm angry about is lack of health care and left it at that, thinking that might sink in but not wanting to add to her sadness.
People's priorities baffle me, but I live in Houston and hate kool-aid!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Logic doesn't enter into it

Back in my days working temp (during the Reagan recession), I happened to end up on a factory crew with a man who started raving about how "the Jews" were causing the 11% unemployment rate that prevailed in the Twin Cities at the time.

I asked with clenched teeth how that was possible.

"They give all the jobs to their own people!" he raged.

As luck would have it, the local paper had just finished a series about various groups that had settled in Minnesota, and I remembered a factoid that I thought would settle the argument once and for all. "But Jews are only 4% of the population of this area. How can 4% of the population cause 11% unemployment by 'giving all the jobs to their own people'?"

"I don't know, but they do!"

Even the densest person should know that 4 is less than 11, but logic was not part of the picture. He had his head (not his mind) made up, and didn't want to be confused by facts.