Reply #34: Uh, right here. You said: [View All]

[Redstone]

"The U.S. needs Mexico's labor force -- especially its younger workers. Mexico needs our rule of law, our environmental standards, our currency and our Constitution. Over the short term, such an historic union would he hugely expensive for the U.S. Over the long term, it could generate more wealth than anything since the U.S. opened up the West."

You were damn blithe about telling the Mexicans that they "need" things that we, the Big Daddy, would graciously grant to them, our backward neighbors.

I stand by my assertion. This was about the most condescending post I've EVER seen on DU. Hey, Mexico! You're too ignorant (and brown) to know how to run your own country, so let us take control of and exploit your young even more than we do now ("we could use the cheap labor," in your words), and Big (white) Daddy will take care of all the Grownup issues.

I will NOT calm down. Your post was condescending and imperialistic and racist, and an insult to every citizen of Mexico. Who the FUCK are you, to tell the citizens of Mexico that they'd be better off if they just let us take them over? But I will concede one thing: How gracious of you to reassure them that we wouldn't necessarily have to INVADE them to make that happen.

I'm NOT backing down. Your post was ignorant and offensive, and you owe the people of Mexico an apology for belittling them.

PS: The US "opened up the West," that event that you admire so much, on the bones of Indians who were exterminated like rats. Guess what, Mister Manifest Destiny: Those Indians were NOT rats. They were human beings.

Redstone