[Ads-l] legacy Americans

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Sep 26 00:42:51 UTC 2021


cf. the popular (or populist) chant, “Jews Will Not Replace Us”

> On Sep 25, 2021, at 8:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Whoever the "legacy Americans" are (and I think I can guess), they're
> living here now by definition.
> 
> To "replace" them is to exile or otherwise eliminate them. (And I think I
> get the picture.)
> 
> Does Tuck's audience believe that's the "Demonrat" agenda? He certainly
> wants them to.
> 
> JL
> 
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 7:27 PM Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> more obedient people from far-away countries
>> 
>> Totally inconsistent with the Republican Party line.  The GOP is the
>> law-and-order party, i.e. the obedient party, and they're clearly obedient
>> to god-and-country propaganda if nothing else.  Their complaint for
>> generations is that liberals are a bunch of loose-living scofflaws
>> (disobedient); and among the more strident Republican complaints about
>> immigrants is a wacky belief that most of them are criminals, i.e.
>> disobedient.  Carlson never made much sense, but his cognitive dissonance
>> keeps rising in pitch and volume.  When will his head pop?
>> 
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>> Stanton McCandlish
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>> "*History*, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant,
>> which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly
>> fools."
>> —Ambrose Bierce, *The Devil's Dictionary* (1911)
>> "When you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show.
>> And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat.
>> And some of us get to sit there with notebooks."
>> —George Carlin, *Archive of American Television* interview (2008)
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