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To: Tempest

Because obviously the issue was never on whether or not this guy was likely a hispanic --- that was established from the start --- but certain people insist that he cannot possibly be from the recent immigrant group of hispanics --- and that to think he is is extremely racist because he just has to be from a long-time American-hispanic group.

Which to me is absurd because the latter is generally not a violent crime group and to have to assume he's from one of them --- or all hispanics have equal crime rates is to me a worse kind of racism. If the old immigrant group and the non-immigrant group has a low rate of violent crime --- why must we assume he's one of them or has an equal chance of being of them versus assuming he's of the recent arrival group?


285 posted on 01/27/2005 8:35:32 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ

LOL!!! You're extrapolating waaaayyyy too much.

No one was making THAT assertion nor generalization.

LOL!!!!


287 posted on 01/27/2005 8:40:18 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: FITZ
...that was established from the start --- but certain people insist that he cannot possibly be from the recent immigrant group of hispanics --- and that to think he is is extremely racist because he just has to be from a long-time American-hispanic group.

If that is what you have understood, you need to work on your reading comprehension. The point is that you cannot tell, simply by hearing a name, whether someone is a illegal alien or not. Which makes those that jump to conclusions about alien satus wrong on two accounts: 1) They cannot tell the status, and 2) It is irrelevant.

305 posted on 01/28/2005 4:15:54 AM PST by TankerKC (The Media turn each tactical victory for insurgents into a strategic victory for terrorists.)
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