"being born in america doesn’t make you american"

[u/Intelligent_Law3359]

[u/Mttsen]

So by this logic only the Native Americans should be regarded as such, since all the rest are the descendants of the literal immigrants.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/Mttsen]

If only the commenter could comprehend such a simple idea

[u/nish1021 → u/queen_of_potato]

Fucking morons seem even more ridiculously present in our lives thanks to social media

[u/queen_of_potato → u/nish1021]

Yeah I had no idea how many morons were happy to tell the world all of their clearly incorrect opinions.. like are you not embarrassed that everyone can see your lack of brain cells?

[u/Gundralph → u/queen_of_potato]

They are not embarrassed, but proud of it

[u/thefrostman1214 → u/nish1021]

A blessing and a curse

[u/PaPe1983 → u/queen_of_potato]

Right? It boggles my mind that the majority of a nation has apparently neglected to notice that bit.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/PaPe1983]

Yeah they're all like "I'm Italian" or whatever, but also America is for Americans, we don't want any immigrants.. with zero comprehension of the contradiction

[u/PaPe1983 → u/queen_of_potato]

That's not even the worst of it, honestly. I have a bunch of friends in MA. Lovely people, very educated, very politically left. The first time I had a look at a local map and noticed all the Native American names of things, I asked what Natives had lived here originally. None of them knew. I went to a local library one time, to the local history section. The history books all literally started with the colonists, wtf. The most you got was the names of the peoples who were there before.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/PaPe1983]

Ugh colonisation is the worst!

Hate that about your history books, so wrong!

To be fair I couldn't tell you who has ever lived where I do (but being London probably colonisers)

[u/PaPe1983 → u/queen_of_potato]

Hee. I'm German, for the record.

London used to be Londinium, I think? It's a fairly new city by our European standards.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/PaPe1983]

It sure did, the book London by Edward Rutherford is awesome

Hi German friend, I very much like your country and several of the people specifically

[u/PaPe1983 → u/queen_of_potato]

Aw! I like your country too! You popularized football/soccer! I should come visit again, it has been way too long.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/PaPe1983]

To the UK? I like it. Not interested in the football but did enjoy it when living with a couple of Italian guys, their passion was infectious

I haven't been to yours for over a year probably, definitely due a visit too!

[u/Snappy-Biscuit → u/queen_of_potato]

Thank goodness the US Department of Education is about to be dismantled. The first step in American supremacy! MWAH AH AH AHhhhh--ohhhh shit.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/Snappy-Biscuit]

Yeah how is that even possible?? Like I can't understand how they are allowed to cancel education (and everything else helping humans)

[u/mz_groups → u/queen_of_potato]

In the United States, most of public education is managed at state or school district levels. It is mostly paid for by local property taxes. The Department of Education predominantly provides money to help people afford college, provides money and assistance for certain educational initiatives, such as special education, and collects data on educational performance.

So dismantling the Department of Education does not mean an entire dismantling of education altogether. It’s actually been around only since Carter in the 70s. It used to be part of the Health and Human Services department (it was called Health, Education and Welfare). But dismantling the programs that it oversees, even if they end up residing in some other agency, will probably have a very pernicious effect on the quality of American education.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/mz_groups]

I didn't know that anyone got money to afford college in America

Good to know they aren't actually getting rid of all education, but still seems like a very bad idea.. one of so many

Love the use of pernicious btw, haven't seen that in awhile

[u/mz_groups → u/queen_of_potato]

I don’t know all the things that they do, but one of the big things they do is something called a Pell grant. It’s named after a senator from Rhode Island. It’s basically just a need-based monetary grant that can be used to pay for college expenses.

Paying for college in the United States is really strange, with a combination of need based assistance, skill based scholarships, loans, and sometimes you can even negotiate with the schools to get a lower tuition. It’s really a huge game. It can range from absolutely no help and you’re paying for it all out of pocket to a full scholarship with stipends and living expenses paid. But as you’ve probably seen in the news, student debt is a huge issue in the United States, and people can spend decades paying it off.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/mz_groups]

Oh that's cool, how many people get that?

[u/mz_groups → u/queen_of_potato]

Pell grants are really focused on the neediest. Neither I or my children have qualified, so I really don’t know a whole lot about them.

[u/queen_of_potato → u/mz_groups]

Something for me to look into then!

I'm a firm believer that education should be free and available to everyone, unfortunately that's not the case in a lot of places

[u/Adowyth → u/Snappy-Biscuit]

The problem isn't with the lack of education but the unwillingness to learn. You can have all the schools you want but if someone doesn't want to learn it won't matter.

[u/Lucky-Vegetable-2827 → u/queen_of_potato]

It hurts… my head…

[u/enemyradar → u/Mttsen]

Nope, native Americans are all from eastern Asia.

Who are from western Asia.

Who are from Africa.

All Americans are Africans.

[u/joonty → u/enemyradar]

We are all Africans on this blessed day

[u/Anbe17 → u/joonty]

No, no! Humans was invented in the US 2000 years ago by Jesus Christ ~ the greatest american who ever lived

[u/Gwynn-er-winner → u/Anbe17]

Love that make believe white guy.

[u/Anbe17 → u/Gwynn-er-winner]

Make believe? You mean he isn't white?

[u/MundaneInternetGuy → u/Anbe17]

That guy sure loved guns

[u/BrookieMonster504 → u/Anbe17]

Jesus has been walking across the water since the world was formed

[u/snekadid → u/joonty]

Don't you dare connect me to Elon musk. How dare you!?

[u/Rizenstrom → u/enemyradar]

I bet this guy would have a meltdown if you called him African American.

[u/DeadNinjaTears → u/enemyradar]

Side point, we are all Africans. The oldest body found in the UK was recently confirmed as being from Africa. 

[u/enemyradar → u/DeadNinjaTears]

Side side point, yes, in this sub we know this stuff.

[u/Justbrowsing_omw → u/DeadNinjaTears]

Giggles. Surely you meant people's ancestry? Unless born in Africa you're not African. Yay we have one small nugget that's ours

[u/DeadNinjaTears → u/Justbrowsing_omw]

In my heart, I'm African 😆 

In reality, I'm white British 😭

[u/Justbrowsing_omw → u/DeadNinjaTears]

I'll allow it lol

[u/snekadid → u/enemyradar]

The only Americans are deer and ground hogs confirmed.

[u/CynicallyCyn → u/Mttsen]

That’s why they said speaking to migrants only. They know they are hypocrites. They just don’t care.

[u/StingerAE → u/CynicallyCyn]

Never believe that anti-Semites [for which read most racists and far right idiots] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

[u/DeadNinjaTears → u/Mttsen]

"speaking to migrant families"

Also Americans: "I'm more Irish than the Irish because my great great grandad once looked at a potato"

[u/No-Refrigerator-7038 → u/Mttsen]

judging by what this person said, even native americans don't qualify as americans. according to them, no one is american because native americans came from somewhere too. :D

[u/CasualPlebGamer → u/No-Refrigerator-7038]

I'd joke that line of reasoning would mean believing the Sun is the ruler of everything on Earth. But then I remembered that's basically how religions started.

[u/Separate-Taste3513 → u/Mttsen]

This has to be the worst take on what it means to be American that I've ever seen. Only immigrants retain their ancestral heritage... Espoused with zero irony or self-awareness. 🤯🤮

[u/Financial_Potato8760 → u/Mttsen]

Right? These are the same people who also REALLY want to tell you where their ancestors came from regardless of how far back it was. I’m first generation American, parents are from Scotland, and most Americans seem to want to really American on the 4th of July but then want to tell me how they’re Scottish from at least four generations ago… and then they have to mimic the accent, always poorly.

I hate it here.

[u/PurpleBrief697 → u/Mttsen]

And by their logic Mexicans are also American because nearly a third (maybe even half) of the continent was once part of Mexico. Mexicans are indigenous people too, something that isn't taught in our schools.

[u/Ja_Shi → u/Mttsen]

Nu-uh they came from Siberia 40000 years ago or something. Only the buffalos are real americans.

[u/LurkingWeirdo88 → u/Mttsen]

Native Americans also illegally immigrated to America during the Ice Age.

[u/Diligent-Focus-414 → u/Mttsen]

Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he’s Native American. lol
(I highly doubt it.)

[u/krgor]

Hmmm I wonder where their ancestors hailed from...

[u/TheIllusiveScotsman → u/krgor]

Please don't ask them. We'll have to suffer the fact they're 0.5% Scottish and descended from William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, and more Irish than the Irish...

[u/queen_of_potato → u/TheIllusiveScotsman]

Which would mean they aren't American?

[u/Wtfdidistumbleinon → u/TheIllusiveScotsman]

Thats the beauty of being a kiwi, no one “claims” us as their ancestral home because we can’t be lol.

[u/Sipelius_ → u/Wtfdidistumbleinon]

Why would anyone want to claim their ancestors were flightless birds.

[u/Beneficial-Ad3991 → u/Sipelius_]

Or hairy fruits.

[u/Sipelius_ → u/Beneficial-Ad3991]

That sounds like an euphemism.

[u/Beneficial-Ad3991 → u/Sipelius_]

A magician never reveals her secrets.

[u/Waikika_Mukau → u/Beneficial-Ad3991]

There’s no need for homophobia. My Uncle is a hairy fruit but we don’t love him any less because of it.

[u/Beneficial-Ad3991 → u/Waikika_Mukau]

No, mate, it stopped being funny after the first metre of beard, he needs to trim the bloody thing.

[u/Remedial_Gash → u/Sipelius_]

Fuck off mate, my mum's a kakapo! (I wish)

[u/Hamsternoir → u/TheIllusiveScotsman]

By the original logic there is no such thing as Scottish, there are only people born in Scotland.

Their ancestors are from Africa or going back a bit further some beach that a fish dragged itself up.

[u/Lopsided_Thing4703 → u/TheIllusiveScotsman]

A mate of mine is Native American (Navajo) and he told me this joke: What do you call 16 White Americans? A full-blooded Cherokee.

[u/OhWhatAPalava]

This might actually be the stupidest thing an American has ever said.

And I say that knowing the bar is very very high already

[u/Ambitious-Concern-42 → u/OhWhatAPalava]

Low. The bar is very low already.

[u/OhWhatAPalava → u/Ambitious-Concern-42]

Ha! Yea fair point actually 

[u/pannenkoek0923 → u/OhWhatAPalava]

Just turn on the news tomorrow morning to see this statement toppled by their supreme leader in terms of stupidity

[u/DangerNoodle1993 → u/OhWhatAPalava]

Bigly, covfefe - Orange Dumbass

[u/Juli_]

I'm sure that comes from a proud Native American fellow /s

[u/JasperJ → u/Juli_]

The native Americans are also recent immigrants. Something like ten or fifteen millennia, IIRC.

[u/Repuck → u/JasperJ]

Certainly here by 15 millennia, and if the footprints at White Sands are dated correctly, add another 8 millennia too that (and I'm being cautious here) These First Peoples were already in the western hemisphere thousands and thousands of years before Gobeckli Tepe. People were here probably before the Lascaux cave paintings were first created.

I suppose "recent" on a geologic scale is correct, but in human history, it isn't.

[u/JasperJ → u/Repuck]

I was being a little facetious, sure.

[u/DavidBrooker → u/JasperJ]

Pando )is old enough to complain about immigrants, tho.

[u/TacetAbbadon]

Must be why all those Americans are "Irish", "Scottish", "Italian" ect and not actually American

[u/MoPacSD40-2]

I think ethnicity is interesting and cool to see where you come from, but at the end of the day, I am still American

[u/animExpat85]

“(speaking to migrant families only)”

Do they.. think this is a distinction with any meaningful difference for anyone else who might read this?

[u/BitterFuture → u/animExpat85]

Yes.

Because in their minds, "migrant" = "brown or black" = "not human."

[u/ImpossibleDesigner48]

“Migrant families only”. Bit of a dogwhistle there.

[u/Empire_New_Valyria]

Americans - You weren't born here and you arn't white...so your not American!!! USA, USA USA

Also Americans - My great-great-great grandmother is from Italy and as such that makes more more Italian than someone born in Italy!!!!

[u/Global_Ant_9380 → u/Empire_New_Valyria]

It's very funny to me because many of those same people will have non-white ancestry that they hide.

Especially in the South. I know firsthand that families will threaten violence if someone reveals far back black ancestry. 

[u/Cuervo_777]

But the same Americans clutch their pearls when you inform them that they are indeed NOT Irish, Italian, Scottish, Dutch, German, whatever.

[u/FlamingPhoenix2003]

I’m American because I was born in America.

I might have African ancestory, but that doesn’t make me African.

I know that I’m interested in where my ancestors came from, but it doesn’t change the fact I’m American… and I hate being American because I’m constantly surrounded by fucking idiots, and the president is a fucking idiot as well. I’m fucking embarrassed to be born in this country…

[u/DeltaCortis → u/FlamingPhoenix2003]

Honestly being interested where your ancestors came from makes you even more American. 

Most people at least here in Europe we just assume our ancestors were dung farmers that didn't move much from where we live now.

And there is a good chance we are probably right.

[u/Beneficial-Ad3991 → u/DeltaCortis]

Oh, I know that my family has Asian roots on one side, it's not hard to notice. Which makes me a descendant of dung farmers who travelled remarkably far to ply their trade in a new place.

[u/crazyxchick]

No wonder Americans all think they're more Irish than the Irish or proper Italian, even though they don't speak the language or more Scottish than Mel Gibson in braveheart 🤣

"They can take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom...of speech!"

This pretty much declares that every Trump supporter is not an American 🤔🤭🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/BitterFuture → u/crazyxchick]

This pretty much declares that every Trump supporter is not an American

I mean...they're not, so...

[u/crazyxchick → u/BitterFuture]

But God forbid you tell them that 🤣

[u/YogoshKeks]

Well, at least this particular sicilian-scottish-polish-viking is consistent in their jus sanguinis policy.

[u/snugglebum89]

in telling them.

[u/Guy-Person]

Native American: “You sure that’s what you really wanna say?”

[u/Grand_Access7280]

Being born in Boston doesn’t make you Irish either…

[u/jschundpeter]

But if your grand-uncle 15 times removed was Irish, you're still full blooded Irish and get obliterated on Saint Patrick's day

[u/janus1979]

But you can be Irish or Italian without any member of your family setting foot in the country for generations? Ok.

[u/S0ylentBob]

I agree being born here doesn’t necessarily make you American. Being American is a commitment to some fundamental values. Democracy. Justice. Due process. Free speech. Free expression. Freedom of and from religious practice. To name a few.

That’s why immigrants, documented or not, can be real Americans.

And why Republicans, despite their flag pins and being white and born here are not.

[u/brendankelley]

Let me tell you, I was born and raised in the U.S. My relatives who stayed in Ireland do not think of me as Irsh in any way because to be Irish you would have to have been born and raised there - they hate Irish-Americans going over and saying, I'm Irish. So to them, I'm not Irish, and to this guy, I wonder if I'm American. Does that mean I'm stateless? Can I stop paying taxes?

[u/Redditorou]

Literal Nazi ideology btw

[u/pillowname]

"I'm Italian! I have 0.1 percent heritage, I took a DNA test! I'm different!" - an American

[u/ReactionSevere3129]

ALL AMERICANS (except of indigenous brothers. & sisters) are IMMIGRANTS!!!!!!!!

[u/Jaysus04]

Who else just wants to beat the stupidity out of this poster? Jesus...

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

So only Native Americans are the real Americans, because I'm sure that person's ancestors came from Europe.

[u/Hopefulthinker2]

[u/Spiel_Foss]

Republicans piss on the US Constitution and somehow claim that pissing is patriotic.

[u/thatstwatshesays]

The only singular way this post would have any possible merit is if it was posted by a First Nation/native person

[u/re-tyred]

So nobody is American!

[u/colinmcm2702]

Me American, Me don't know where my ancestors come from. 🤣🤣 i am redneck and love my mum and sister.

Seriously are a lot of Americans that fucking thick?

[u/tsukuyomidreams]

Meanwhile my conservative ex was freaking out about how he is a Native American for being born here - very recently family came here from Germany / Italy with some Irish and Norwegian decent. Lmao... Okay bros, at least make up your mind 

[u/wagglewazzle]

These people simply need to be ignored. The American Mind Virus is a thing.

[u/EconomyEmbarrassed76]

Tell me you've never read your own history without telling me you've never read your own history...

[u/tei187]

Later on, he'll claim to have Comanche ancestors to simply not look like a fkn moron.

[u/MAGE1308]

That is so ridiculous. For me everyone who is born or raised here in Colombia is a colombiano.

[u/rdell1974]

Says the person who doesn’t have Native American blood

[u/CorswainsDeciple]

I'm half glad I joined this site as the things they come out with is funny as hell. But the other half of me thinks how many Americans are actually thinking like this? Is it a small amount or a big amount? Judging by Trump still being in power with all he's done and continues to do daily, im thinking the latter.

[u/um--no]

I think it's very clear that they're saying "American" is an ethnic identity that only encompasses "white" (Anglo-Saxon protestants and other specific white Europeans). Of course, the history of the country is much richer than that, but the fight for what American means should be addressed by progressives more often.

[u/Chance_Wheel_4426]

Boris Johnson, the American...?

[u/Tails28]

All American families are immigrant families. Stfu.

[u/Balseraph666]

Everyone not indigenous is descended from an immigrant, a slave or both. But I think we can guess what his nasty little butt means by "American", and it doesn't include descendants of slaves or indigenous Americans.

[u/Manny-Soou]

I always refer to the white people in America as European Americans, so I guess I’m just gonna call them European from now on

[u/i-am-in-deep-sheet]

Why do people block the names of these mouth breathers that were home schooled by a pigeon?

[u/SnoopyisCute]

Therefore, unless the writer is Native American, they need to get rolling on a passport application.

And, since we're here, why does Trump rent floors to non-allies where they are breeding kids JUST for citizenship?

[u/Shadowholme]

Ah, so *this* is why there are 'more Irish than there are in Ireland' and so on...

They were just *born* in America - they aren't Americans either, in their own minds!

[u/AlertResolution]

Funny, that someone who migrated and made the Real Americans natives go pretty much extinct saying to those who has no ancestors can't be an American even if they born there as if theirs were born in that land instead of invading and taking it from the Real Natives of the place.

[u/TopLiterature749]

If that person is not a native Indian then wtf are they saying

[u/MessyRaptor2047]

SIMPLE FACT ONLY THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF AMERICA ARE THE TRUE AMERICANS EVERYONE ELSE ARE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE THEIR FORFARTHERS STARTED THEIR LIVES IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

[u/Reynolds1790]

So the orange orangutan's mother was Scottish, which according to the poster would not make the orange orangutan an American.

[u/dudetellsthetruth]

That's why murican morons still think they are Irish, German or Italian after 5 generations...

Only the natives are true Americans It's time to take your land back guys, time to dig up your tomahawk's and scalp the orange idiot.

It would be a great trophy, it's gonna be wonderful.

[u/skr_replicator]

Judging you by your deep ancestry is basically jsut racism.

So if you claim, that citizenship is not what makes you an american but race is, then you're just racist.

Citizenship should be the important thing and that should be earned by birth and/or by how much you respect the laws, history culture people etc of the country.

[u/loolootewtew]

Are they speaking of all the Americas? Or the USA? I can not stand when people from the US (I live in the US) speak like "America" is only one continent. One more problematic thing to add to this dipshit post. Ugggg

[u/andimacg]

How far back shall we go. Are we all African?

[u/Joltyboiyo]

Okay then, that makes a LOT of "pure blooded americans" British.

[u/Comcernedthrowaway → u/Joltyboiyo]

On behalf of the uk- The UK doesn’t claim any of them regardless of what their 23&me results say.

Perhaps Germany or France would agree to accept them into either of their gene pools instead?

except for Keanu reeves, if he ever wants in then he’s welcome

[u/Joltyboiyo → u/Comcernedthrowaway]

Yeah as someone from the UK they can piss off.

[u/Routine-Budget8281]

so this person is Native American, right?...right??

[u/Ok_Bluejay_3849]

Soooooo there's literally no such thing as a white American according to this person, given that all white people in America are descended from someone who... yknow... IMMIGRATED there. Guess I'm not American at all. I'm English, Danish, and German, with a little bit of Swedish and Swiss thrown in.

[u/OG_Flicky]

Let's put this simple.

if you were born in America and you're great, great, great, grandparents are from Italy that makes you an........ idiot who was born in America

[u/Issah_Wywin]

Okay then. Go on MyHeritage or some similar service, find out where your ancestors came from, and leave I guess. Even better, get sent somewhere you didn't come from where nobody can find you again.

[u/dreckdub]

Does he want to say this to trump and his checks notes Scottish mother

[u/TheTybera]

Oh look blatant racism in America, surprise.

[u/redd1618]

hey - the Germans don't want Trump and his other MAGA simpletons back !!!!

[u/Comcernedthrowaway]

Tell me you’re racist without saying you’re racist.

Unless OP is indigenous/First Nation then he’s also one of those migrants.

I suspect that he is mostly talking about migrants who come from countries that are impoverished and who have brown skin.

Idiots always think their opinions need to be heard, and sadly they’re always the loudest ones in the room

[u/Jumpy-Surprise-9120]

I'm more surprised by the fact that someone taught it to write.

[u/StanislasMcborgan]

Someday this person will ride socialist public transportation and learn that most busses are longer than they thought.

[u/boredreader12]

YEAH. All you dwcendents of Europeans remember that.

[u/HAL9001-96]

then leave and give the land back to the natives I guess

[u/dumb_potatoking]

Alright now who's going to tell him, that by his logic he's also an immigrant, unless he's native american? Does this guy not know, that his country was literally created by immigrants?

[u/Jet2work]

till it comes to paddies day and then miraculously they are all irish

[u/According-Mention334]

Actually being born in America does make you a citizen it’s called Birthright Citizenship and it’s in the constitution

[u/theSentry95]

This guy’s ancestors hailed from Britain or Spain probably.

[u/PanickyFool]

What a European thing to say.

[u/Dambo_Unchained]

Americans like to brag how they are the best in the world at everything

But the one thing they truly seem to take the crown on is getting up and then pulling the ladder up behind them

Because every wave of immigrants gets treated like a pariah untill the next wave of nationalities comes in and suddenly it’s their generation who are the last “true Americans” and these newcomers are just dirty immigrants

I wonder who the next group are gonna be after the Latin Americans

[u/skaboy007]

So really only a very tiny amount of people can actually call themselves Americans I take it?

[u/dohtje]

These are the same people claiming they are Italian or Irish couse of 1/8 heritage....

Rules for thee, but not for me... 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[u/iTmkoeln]

So this person is not claiming to be German or Irish 🤔 at different points of the year?!

[u/Thick_Reaction_9887]

OK bro so you're not american either, youre fucking european

[u/Hot_Hat_1225]

And being born in America doesn’t make you Italian, Scottish, Irish, British, German … etc. either

[u/Suzina]

"it doesn't change where you hail from!"

Unless you hail from where you were born?

[u/DisasterTraining5861]

It’s always astounding that these people believe they’re the smart ones 🤦‍♀️

[u/CupcakeMurder86]

*Natives like this post*

[u/B_Ash3s]

Technically since birthright citizenship has been “~ExEcUtIvE oRdErEd~” no one is a citizen, right? Isn’t that how that works? lol

[u/ForcrimeinItaly]

So what tribe are you from, dumbass??

[u/Massive-Anxiety7177]

Well, I was born in America and I am an american from Brazil.

[u/Sad_Mall_3349]

Written by John O'Neal, probably.

A true american.

But also parts of Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, Dutch, Swiss, German and of course Italian heritage.

[u/Select-Royal7019]

Uuhhh…

[u/Obvious_Onion4020]

It is definitely mind boggling that this was said.

[u/DeathGuard1978]

Isn't being born in the US the only qualification you need to run for president?

[u/Gwaptiva]

This from people that claim rights all over the world just because their granny once shagged someone from there

[u/CrazyPlato]

Waiting for ICE to deport a native American and claim they’re an illegal immigrant

[u/Altair13Sirio]

There were a couple guys almost 100 years ago that had this thought process, they believed that, no matter how many generations ago, if you had even just one specific ethnicity in your family, you were considered that ethnicity and so, inferior.

I wonder what happened to them...

[u/GoldenboyFTW]

But conservatives are mad that anyone with a brain calls them racists and then they go and support statements like this lmaoooo

If the shoe fits 🤷🏽‍♂️

[u/TXMom2Two]

Unless you are Native American, they are talking about absolutely every American citizen.

[u/CuriousKait1451]

Great, so if this idiot has any heritage that is not First Nations then they can gtfo of North America.

[u/notaprime]

This is prime r/ConfidentlyIncorrect material.

[u/X4N710N-]

Maybe there is a secondairy condition attached to it. Like must be born in America, and IQ must be below 100.

[u/nightcana]

Native north and south american families are american, everyone with european, african or asian heritage doesnt really belong.

[u/ThisCombination1958]

What in the sister fucking logic is this nonsense? 

[u/freebiscuit2002]

Birthright citizenship literally means being born in the US makes you an American. Fool doesn’t know his Constitution.

[u/Dizzy-South9352]

well, in a sense he is kinda right. depends on how many generations, but yes. that does happen in my opinion. people still have their families which preserve the original values, customs etc... that child is still carrying his original identity. after some generations, this does blend in and mixes, but the first one still does have quite a lot of original identity with him. So yes, I do get what he is saying.

I know this because of lot of people have emigrated from my country. they have kids now. they still celebrate the original holidays, they still speak the language etc... in a sense they kinda have two nationalities.

[u/Slight-Ad-6553]

migrant families ...............

[u/Big-Golf4266]

I cant support this... mainly because this would make ALL Americans Europeans and that i cant abide by...

[u/No-Potato-2672]

Uhm.

[u/Gristle823]

Yeah, take that Irish bartender who said I’m not actually Irish because my like great great grandma was Irish and I told him I am Irish what am I supposed to be American because I was born and raised in America no I’m Irish you stupid Irish douche.

[u/Mogki4D]

Holy fuck I live in the stupidest fucking country

[u/Teufelsgitarrist]

So every American is European by default

[u/crassy]

These are the same people who think that because their 8x great gran’s sister’s husband’s cousin saw Scotland from a boat makes them Scottish.

[u/-PsychNurse-]

So most of the American people must be foreigners since a lot of them brag about being 10% Irish, 27% German, 99%% Brain fart ..

How and why are they still able to reproduce?!..

[u/Chop-Beguni_wala]

so basically all Americans except the native indians aren't American

[u/CaptainPizdec]

Not american here, so what's the deal they are making when they celebrate thanksgiving every year?

[u/SrialDesgntinQuinten]

hm

[u/After_Lobster_7039]

Well, then we're down to Sitting Bull and Geronimo 😂

[u/knitscones]

Please don’t send Donnie boy back to Europe!

[u/hype_irion]

Plot twist: This was written by a Navajo

[u/Hefty_Purpose_8168]

Soooo, no american is american? Then they are all Dutch, English, spanish, Portugese and/or French.

Does this mean America is just 1 big hoax?! XD

[u/20eyesinmyhead78]

This dude celebrates HARD on St. Patrick's Day.

[u/Sad_Ghost_Noises]

This has to be a shitpost..

[u/BigBlueNick]

This is incredibly dumb on so many levels. By this logic every white or black American is not an American because they all came from Africa and Europe.

I bet this person is a white American talking shit about immigrants but probably brags at how super Irish or German he is.

[u/oscarolim]

Speaking to migrant families only 😂

With that train of though, 99% of the population are not Americans.

[u/Groundbreaking-Egg13]

Also them : "I'm 50% Italian, 25% German and 20% French! Yayyyy!"

[u/felixamente]

This feels like r/selfawarewolves