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FWD.us Remixes the Statue of Liberty Greeting
theodp writes "In the days leading up to the Senate's passage of the landmark immigration bill, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new ad from FWD.us, his pro-immigration reform PAC. The ad, 'Emma', contains an altered version of Emma Lazarus' famous 1883 poem 'The New Colossus' ('Give me your tired, your poor...'), which is engraved on a bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty. 'In doing so,' notes the Latin Times, 'it [the ad] departs radically from the meaning of Lazarus' original — which exalted the Statue of Liberty as a "mother of exiles" and redeemer of the world's rootless poor — to accommodate the PAC's call for more high-skilled workers from abroad be allowed to work and live legally in the United States.' Instead of the original's call for 'the wretched refuse of your teeming shore' and 'the homeless, tempest-tossed', the FWD.us remix asks for 'the influencers and the dreamers...talent that is searching for purpose...those dedicated to the doing'. Here's a YouTube Doubler of readings of both versions — pick your fave, kids!"
The idea was that the USA would be a shining city on a hill, an example for other nations.
It wasn't supposed to be a beacon for immigrants.
"Hey, you can do this too"... not "Hey, come over here cause you can't get your shit together over there"...
From the summary:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new ad from FWD.us, his pro-immigration reform PAC.
This is inaccurate. The main focus of the PAC is on guest workers, not immigrants.
Seriously fuck that guy. I'm sure that if it wasn't him, some other unscrupulous douche would be in his place doing basically the same shit but he's the one here and now so fuck him and his abuse of the powerless.
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whichever one doesn't involve me competing head on with 1 million new (and desperate) working in the worst economy since WWII?
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"Keep your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Send me your young, your rich,
Your highly skilled, willing to work 18 hour days.
They will soon be returned to you as wretched refuse,
on your teeming shore."
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The idea was that the USA would be a shining city on a hill, an example for other nations.
It wasn't supposed to be a beacon for immigrants.
"Hey, you can do this too"... not "Hey, come over here cause you can't get your shit together over there"...
Whose idea?
Why did the people who wrote our constitution include a clause granting citizenship to those who are born here? Had *they* already perverted the idea?
When I was a schoolboy we were taught to take pride in the fact that we were and always had been a melting pot. Somehow we've run off the rails since then.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I am a brazen giant of Geek fame,
Who conquered networks astride from lan to lan;
Here at our white-washed, paywalls shall stand
A nerdy man whose torch lights flame wars
Master of walled gardens
Father of social Exiles. From his mouse-hand
Glows the world-wide web; his code wileding minions command
The air-gapped harbor that geocities frame.
"Keep, ancient pictures, your funny stories!" cries he
With silent lips. "Give me your engineers , your admins,
Your huddled masses yearning to code C,
The wretched refuse of your Mac store.
Send these, the clueless, tempest-tost to me,
I need more fodder for my golden horde!"
Here are the added lines:
...
And give me the influencers and the dreamers/
Talent that is searching for purpose/
Those dedicated to the doing
Send all these, the boundless born to me
I guess that's what you get when your writers are unaware of meter......I'd really like to know who thought the word 'influencers' meant anything. Woodie Guthrie could improvise more poetic speech live.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Are you Native American? If not, you're a hypocrite.
Do you seriously think the Native Americans don't regret the way they left their borders open to anyone who turned up?
If they could go back in time and build a wall to keep Europeans out, I suspect most would eagerly have done so.
The statue of liberty didn't originally have that inscription, that was added later and itself had nothing to do with the symbolism of Libertas.
The poem was written in 1883 and read at the Opening of the Statue of Liberty to the public in 1886. While it took almost 20 years before a plaque was added to memorialize the poem in 1903, it was very much in the original spirit of the the Freedom the Statue represents.
It was not like the addition of "In God We Trust" on our money, or "Under God" to the Pledge during the McCarthy era of rampant fears of God-less communism.
Anyone who thinks America should adhere only to the original wording of the declaration and the original constitution is an idiot. Basing society which has experienced 237 years of social change on an equally old document is ludicrous.
You want to discard the Constitution? Sorry, but the NSA beat you to it.
Society has changed, but human nature has not changed in our entire history. When those documents were written, they were written with those things in mind.
You might as well argue we shouldn't ground our engineering in physics because the position of the planets has changed.
The melting pot thing has been, IMHO, always been more an observation of fact, rather than an ideal. That is to say, the melting of several different kinds of metals together does, at times, give birth, to a stronger alloy. You don't want to use a weapon of pure iron up against someone using a blade of forged steel...your blade will crack in two when the blades meet. Unfortunately, the process is, as we've seen, closer to serendipity when a new alloy is discovered, especially since the science is still maturing; in other words, the US may be creating a lot of useful alloys, so to speak, but at times the furnace is running too hot for the right crystalline structure to appear for one alloy, or too cold for another. And that's not even touching on the madness of Uranium-type alloys (people) who are allotropic, and damn near impossible to work with / alloy with except under certain time-based circumstances.
And simple teaching of the US being a melting pot is not the same as it in action. In much the same sense as identifying programmers who are struggling (an earlier article) is not the same as finding a way to help them succeed. Identifying the alloys that are coming out of a furnace is one thing...improving the alloys that flow out of it is something else.
I am John Hurt.
When I was a schoolboy we were taught to take pride in the fact that we were and always had been a melting pot.
Yes - I've always found it amusing that the US is so proud of being a "melting pot". This suggests that all cultural distinctiveness will be lost and you have to become just like everyone else - it's the Borg approach to immigration. Not sure why you would want to be so proud of that but, having once been a US resident, I'll grant that it is an accurate metaphor.
Every other country that ever existed was based on ethnicity. ... The melting pot idea was introduced by people who had something to gain.
First you praise the US for not being based on ethnicity, and then you criticize the melting pot. Talk about a confused argument.
Zuck him. He can go zuck himself. What a motherzucker.
We'll invite everyone in.
Culture? We have none. We are all citizens of the television.
Heritage? None. We are arbitrary, gray and without origins. We need government, television and shopping to feel a sense of place.
Values? We have nothing in common except that we like money, we like sex, and we like to shop.
It's the path to Idiocracy + Brave New World.
Why does Zuckerberg support it? Cheap labor. People who permanent vote for no majority rule. And more customers who haven't yet gotten jaded about the decay.
Futurist Traditionalism
It wasn't this way until after 1980 or so when everything became all about the DOLLAR.
It could easily swing back. All it would take is another activist generation. The seeds for that already exist in the current abuses.
I think that he is the one who should get fucked. If he was on fire i wouldn't piss on him to put him out.
Why is Snark Required?
Walls are a sign of a society in decline: Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, Berlin Wall, etc. They say: "here was our high-water mark, then we were swept back out".
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Walls are a sign of a society in decline: Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall
The "Chinese" starting building those walls several centuries BC, before there even was a China.
Hadrian's Wall was built in 122 AD, 354 years before the fall of the Western Empire, and 1331 years before the fall of the Eastern Empire.
Whether or not the melting of metals together creates a something stronger than the original metals may be chance. But certainly an alloy is better than blade composed of various chunks of unalloyed metals barely attached to each other.
The alternative to the melting pot isn't the salad bowl, it's the Balkans. Or pick your favorite salad bowl. Pretty much anywhere in the world where various cultures and peoples have become mixed they've either assimilated to the point of no longer being able to easily distinguish, or they've maintained tense relations centuries occasionally flaring into wars and massecres.
I grew up in the midwest and really liked he model there. Unlike the east coast where I hear Americans whose families have been in America for generations utter nonsense like "I'm Italian" or "I'm Polish", where I grew up everyone was just American. There was tension whenever blacks and whites interacted, but embracing mutual assimilation can even erase that even as it erased the differences between the Germans, French, English and others who settled the area. Instead we have America-haters saying we should exclude blacks from being full Americans - we have to treat them like some alien hybrid of African and American (thus the term "African American" even though most of their families have been in America longer than the families of most white people.
So by all means let's have a melting pot. Even if melting two metals together forms a blade weaker than either of the two metals, that blade will still be stronger than a blade made of two separate pieces of metal or a blade made from metals that have not thoroughly blended.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
I dream of someday being rich enough to support more immigration and even illegal immigration like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
So by all means let's have a melting pot. Even if melting two metals together forms a blade weaker than either of the two metals, that blade will still be stronger than a blade made of two separate pieces of metal or a blade made from metals that have not thoroughly blended.
Wrong: bi-metal blades are extremely common in applications like jigsaws (sabre saws) and reciprocating saws ("sawzalls"), because they're more durable than single-metal blades. Bi-metal is not an allow, it's two separate metals joined together, without blending. You see it in blades because with a saw blade, you want the body of the blade to be flexible, but the teeth to be very hard (so they stay sharp), which are opposite qualities. Another example of completely separate metals on a blade is circular saw blades with carbide teeth: the blade is made of one kind of steel, and the teeth are made of small cut pieces of carbide (high-carbon steel), which are actually glued onto the blade body.